Word: network
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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More than ever, though, it was clear that the highest-rated network does not necessarily carry the best shows, and that what the industry really needs is not a quantity but a quality rating service. At midseason the top ten shows were once again practically the private preserve of gunslingers. Although NBC's Wagon Train topped the sorry heap with a 36.9 Nielsen, CBS grabbed off seven of the next nine places, with Gunsmoke, Have Gun, Will Travel, a Red Skelton special, Dennis the Menace, Rawhide, Andy Griffith and Perry Mason. The only challengers: ABC's The Untouchables...
Although NBC showed up poorly in last week's Nielsen ratings, it could find some consolation in color. While the network continued to expand its color coverage, including everything from Macbeth to Jack Paar, RCA reported that "although black-and-white TV sales dropped 7%, color television showed the sharpest rise of any consumer product on the market-up 30% over 1959." Possible threat for next season: a color western, with all that blood in living (or dying...
...curve of the earth. Echo I, the 100-ft. balloon satellite, which is still a striking naked-eye spectacle in the sky, showed the value of a large, passive reflector from which to bounce radio waves. Transit satellites I-B and II-A were U.S. Navy prototypes for a network that will outmode all previous methods of air and sea navigation. The U.S.'s Pioneer V lived up to its name by spinning into an orbit around the sun, still sending radio messages back to earth when it was 22 million miles away. The problem of greatest interest to most...
...plane was off for its first check run at its home base, FAA's Aeronautical Center at Will Rogers Field. It will fly back and forth across the U.S., following a carefully plotted grid course, to check the strength and direction of ground-based signals, cover the entire network every 90 days...
...alert the controllers if any plane is failing to live up to its flight plan. The first data-processing center is scheduled to be put into limited operation by late 1962 in Boston. By 1970, when the first Mach 3 airliners are expected to come into service, the computer network will be so complete, FAA men hope, that a plane will be able to have its landing clearance even before it takes...