Word: programming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bowes and his amateurs. Then Walter P. Chrysler bought the Major away, at a time when many admen thought his peak of popularity was passed (TIME, June 22). It was up to the Thompson agency to top radio's top show in a year when novelty and unusual program ideas were being demanded in no uncertain terms by broadcast sponsors. The agency's answer was a program called "The Good Will Court of Human Relations...
...This program, slightly toned down, Chase & Sanborn brought to its listeners over a coast-to-coast network, with commercial plugs by breathless Graham McNamee. An obvious "natural" for the mass audience, the Good Will Court was given approval by a parade of politicians led by New York's Governor Lehman and New Jersey's Governor Hoffman. The lower court judges and retired magistrates who served received $250 each, "for charity." An endless stream of stammering unfortunates appeared to feed its microphones. Not too sure they liked the idea, but reluctant to cross a good client, National Broadcasting...
...convinced that the Good Will Court should be a radio program. That it serves a useful purpose in providing needed advice for persons whose circumstances do not give them easy access to lawyers is undeniable. Furthermore the sponsors and producers of the program cannot be held responsible for a system that makes law and justice a difficult and terrifying matter to persons who are poor and depressed...
...Official" Program of Kidnapper Chang was as follows (full text): "The Central [Nanking] Government [of China] has not been sincere in carrying out resistance against Japan. This has been shown by lengthy negotiations and the suppression of patriotic movements. So we must gather our forces, overthrow the Central Government and expedite the national salvation...
...Chinese and it was masterly to put the whole program of war with Japan out officially from Nanking last week and see what would happen, especially what Japan would do. Japan had done so little up to this week, and Nanking had received so many telegrams of passionate loyalty to the Government from so many outlying Chinese military satraps that the kidnapping was going fine, even if somebody should get killed...