Word: perked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Angeles, another network, scheduled to go into operation in November, was preparing to enter the field. Progressive Broadcasting System hoped to perk up many of the 1,000.slowly expiring small unaffiliated stations of the U.S. with a daily infusion of ten hours of "live" and recorded shows. Hoping for a network of 350 stations (and needing 200 to break even), Progressive promised a familiar formula: soap operas, Hollywood gossip, a homespun philosopher named Cottonseed Clark, and such singers as Mel Torme and Connie Haines...