Word: radio
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...might have melted with envy. One of the most pampered trades in the U.S.-the disk jockeys-had come to town 2,500 strong, and Big Daddy, in the shape of U.S. record companies, was there to take care of them. Officially, the jocks were attending the Second International Radio Programing Seminar and Pop Music Disk Jockey Convention. Actually, the convention was attending them...
...disk jockeys' convention was not all payola. The sponsoring (Omaha-based ) Storz radio chain had, after all, slipped the word "seminar" into the official title. The jocks heard lectures on such subjects as "News Should Be New," "Do We Live and Die By Ratings?" (answer: yes), "Are Live Radio Commercials Dead?" (no, they just sound that...
...suave, Brown-educated ('27) emigre from Madison Avenue, "Hub" Robinson has long believed in the motto "Mass with Class." and at CBS he went far toward making it work. He was responsible for Playhouse 90, the Phil Silvers Show, Twentieth Century. He prompted Edward R. Murrow to turn radio's Hear It Now into the television classic...
...book publisher, Springer brooded out the war in the parks of Hamburg (a respiratory ailment kept him out of military service), decided that the traditionally dark, hearty brew of German journalism needed a bit of tang and a fleck of foam. He founded his empire in 1946 on the radio weekly Hör zu! (Listen), is now sole owner of three magazines (and one-third owner of two more), ranging from the gossipy Das Nvue Blatt to the Scientific Kristall, three Hamburg dailies, including the busty, bustling Bild-Zeitung (circ. 3,269,164-West Germany's largest...
...would be held until the roundup began. But United Press International, which did not staff Silver's briefing, was told about the raid by a "responsible police official." who set the release date at 10 p.m. Out on the U.P.I, wire in time for 10 o'clock radio newscasts clacked word of Silver's sortie, a full two hours before the cops were due to swoop...