Word: networks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Slim, trim, gently mustached, he is a darling of the jitterbug trade, has over 2,000,000 regular listeners a week, makes $20,000 a year extra for personal appearances, at $300 per. The Make-Believe Ballroom idea has spread to other cities, offers brisk competition to network stations wherever it exists...
...first radio forum of the year members of the Debating Council will argue the respective merits of three Republican and three Democratic presidential candidates over WAAB of the Colonial network from 4 to 5 o'clock this afternoon...
Information Please costs Canada Dry about $10,000 a week. Biggest piece of this budget ($5,400) goes for air time on 60 NBC-Blue network stations. The expert Big Three get something like $450 an appearance, Interlocutor Fadiman, $750 (before Canada Dry came along they all got $40 to $50 a sitting). Guest experts, one or two a week, get $150 up. Biggest guest offer reported so far (and so far unaccepted) : $500 to Eleanor Roosevelt. Canada Dry considers this $10,000 a week well-spent. Since it started sponsoring Information Please, a year ago last week, Canada...
...rally will be broadcast from coast-to-coast over N.B.C.'s Blue Network from 10:30 to 11 o'clock. John Kieran, noted sports editor of the New York Times, will be master of ceremonies. The program will feature musical selections by the bands of both Universities, and the members of the clubs will sing their respective alma maters...
...Varsity debating team supported the affirmative yesterday in a no-decision debate with Bates College on the subject:- "Resolved, That the Government Should Own and Operate the Railroads." The debate was broadcast over radio station WAAB and the Colonial network...