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...Quiz Shows: ". . . Hastily establish the ignorance of the contestant and give her a refrigerator, an airplane, or $20,000 to get away from the microphone...
...Quiz programs will be outlawed if a prize is awarded to any person "whose selection is dependent in any manner upon lot or chance," and if, as a condition of winning, the contestant 1) must furnish "any money or thing of value," or have in his possession a sponsor's product; 2) must be listening to or seeing over television the show in question; 3) must answer correctly a question to which either the answer or a clue (including the question itself) has been given on a previous broadcast, or 4) must write a letter or answer the telephone...
Some studios smiled through their tears and hastily applauded the FCC proposal. NBC, which runs the big Truth or Consequences (its Miss Hush prizes amounted to more than $21,000) and nine lesser quiz-bangs, primly pointed to its own "longstanding policy of stressing the entertainment, educational and news values of its programs . . ." WOR, key station for Mutual, another leader in the giveaway field (Queen for a Day, Three for the Money), solemnly assented: "The giveaway craze and large prizes have begun to overshadow the entertainment value of programs. Such overemphasis is not healthy for radio...
...show such a success? Explains Producer Louis G. Cowan, who achieved early fame & fortune with the Quiz Kids (TIME, July 15, 1940): "We've made the home audience an integral part of every show ... I conceive of this thing as being kind of a national Sunday game." How sure had he been? Says Cowan: "There are certain things that have the smell of a hit about them. This thing smelled like a hit right...
...spent a year at the tool plant, learning the business thoroughly. Then he turned it over to his executives (he could always quiz and harry them by telephone) and went to Hollywood. Since boyhood, fascinated by the movies, he had jotted down ideas for scripts in a notebook. He had even met and cultivated a movie actor named Ralph Graves. In Hollywood, his uncle, Rupert Hughes-a prosperous fictioneer and biographer-had been writing and directing pictures. Howard hung around the sets, asked questions...