Word: network
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...open season on NBC's Tonight show continued, but Johnny Carson was not perceptibly pinked. ABC had already taken a pot shot with Joey Bishop (TIME, April 28). And last week, a new ad hoc hookup, the United Network, took aim with a cap pistol called the Las Vegas Show...
This fall United hopes to become a full fourth network starting with six hours of daily programing. To keep going, it will need something more solid than Dana's variety show. Commercial time sells for $6,000 a minute, but last week United couldn't peddle much of its time and gave a lot away free to such public-service sponsors as the U.S. Post Office, the Navy and the Peace Corps...
...Taiwan's population and is fast outstripping its 1,500,000-kw. capacity; with 80% of its output earmarked for expanding industry, Taiwan Power is aiming toward a 4,000,000-kw. output within the next ten years, is rushing completion of the Tachia River power network to supply a quarter of the total through a mix of hydroelectric power and thermal power generated by oil shipped halfway around the world from Kuwait...
Apart from good lawyers and proven box-office appeal, Carson had some borrowed leverage working for him-the threat of new competition from the ABC network. Theoretically, ABC's Joey Bishop Show, which started last week opposite Tonight, was bound to chip away at Carson's audience. After a week's run, it looks as if neither NBC nor Carson has anything serious to worry about...
...television network executive and an advertising agent attempted to defend commercial TV against producer David Susskind's charges of "mediocrity" at the Winthrop House Forum last night...