Word: pittsburghs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Progress. Jacobs is proud of the citation and seems to enjoy the publicity. But the public recognition can't distract him from his devotion to radio. He was the kind of boy who built crystal sets out of oatmeal boxes and rejoiced when be picked up a station in Pittsburgh. Regardless of what time he goes to bed, Jacobs does not need an alarm clock to wake himself up at 6:30 a.m. "I get on the radio in the morning like some people get up for breakfast." The excitement, after 40 years, has not worn...
Some of the new owners already have interests in other sports: the Pittsburgh franchise goes to a syndicate that includes Jerry Wolman, owner of pro football's Philadelphia Eagles, and the Los Angeles franchise was won by Jack Kent Cooke, who also owns pro basket ball's Los Angeles Lakers. For the privilege of playing in their league, each of the new owners must pay $2,000,000 to the old owners. And there are certain incidental expenses. Take the case of St. Louis, where the only ice arena in town belongs to James D. Norris, the onetime...
...Boston's WBZ, after Pittsburgh's KDKA, is the second oldest licensed station in America. Though its officials prefer the adult image of "contemporary popular music," WBZ's sound is largely rock 'n' roll. But with the cats and the caterwauling goes an aggressive news operation that recently won two United Press International awards, one for editorials criticizing the Massachusetts birth-control laws, the second for coverage of the power blackout in New England. For the privilege of broadcasting a one-minute commercial on Boston's most successful station in prime time, advertisers...