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Sparring Partners (Fri. 9:30 p.m., ABC-TV). New quiz show, with Walter Kiernan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Program Preview, Apr. 11, 1949 | 4/11/1949 | See Source »

...decided that fresh blood outside the University was vitally necessary. We would try maids, ask men on the street, quiz gas station attendants. The top man vowed that the average citizen in lonely nowadays and will leap at any chance to attend parties and pick up easy money...

Author: By Gene R. Kearney, | Title: Modern Pyramids Grow, Fade Fast | 3/19/1949 | See Source »

Above club fights, cooking hints, quiz shows, double-dome discussions, and the other knickknacks of television, TV fans love vaudeville. TV has brought it all back-from trained dogs to baggy-pants comics. Some of it is as drearily old-hat as the Keith circuit in 1912. But there are glittering exceptions. The hour-long Admiral Broadway Revue (Fri. 8 p.m., NBC-TV & Du Mont) is an example of good vaudeville...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Glittering Exception | 3/14/1949 | See Source »

Deduction. In Madison, Wis., Marshall Straus received notice that he had won $13,500 worth of prizes on a radio quiz show, found that 1? in postage was due on the letter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Feb. 14, 1949 | 2/14/1949 | See Source »

With such slight Teutonic flavorings, some well-known U.S. radio techniques (disc jockeys, quiz shows, children's programs, folksy announcers) are being used by Berlin's station RIAS (Rundfunk im Amerikanischen Sektor). The blend has proved so palatable that in a recent poll 80% of Berlin's radio listeners voted for RIAS over the six competing Soviet-controlled stations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Der Unheimliche Mr. Heimlich | 2/14/1949 | See Source »

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