Word: networks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Noone was particularly depressed about the nonarrival of two complete home gymnasiums, one of which he assigned to a neighborhood boys' club. Telegrams and registered letters seemed to have no effect on the manufacturer. He complained to the network, and parts of one gymnasium finally have begun trickling in. Worn out in the scramble to peddle his winnings, Noone took a dim view of the producers of the giveaway show, who had promised to cooperate in collecting the booty. Said he, glumly pondering his bonanza: "They get you into their offices and make you think they're giving...
Beginning in September, the network will broadcast commercial advertising for the first time in its history. But the Rundfunk's directors added an original touch: all of the commercials will be jammed to gether in two half-hour periods; one at 6:30 in the morning, the other at noon. For the rest of the day Bavarian listeners will be on their...
...qualified its negative answer by pointedly limiting it to the "CBS network," which seemed to leave the way open for single-station deals. ABC, rumored willing to accept even a network liquor show, announced cautiously that it had "reached no decision." NBC unblushingly offered the facilities of its' network-owned Station KNBC in San Francisco for a test run. Perhaps in deference to NBC's own policy manual (under the heading: "Business Classifications Unacceptable on NBC" it lists wines and liquor), NBC stipulated that Schenley commercials could be broadcast only after midnight on a disc-jockey show...
...Network televisers, regarded by the moviemakers as dangerous rivals, complain that they cannot afford Hollywood's price for anything better than westerns and ancient grade B's. Independent station WPIX, owned by the New York Daily News, has been solving the problem by importing good movies; last year, it bought from Sir Alexander Korda the rights to 24 British films. Now that the last Korda movies are being televised, WPIX is ready with a new 13-film package-a mixed bag of eleven English and two American hits of a decade...
...Beatrice Pearson) are forced into passing as whites so that he can practice his profession. But he keeps clandestine contact with his Negro colleagues, names his son (Richard Hylton) after a famous Negro doctor. Out of these contacts emerge some fresh insight into Negro viewpoints, and into the intricate network of etiquette and anguish separating those who can "pass" from those who cannot...