Word: radioing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...There are now 530 television stations in the U.S. (35 noncommercial and educational), 3,823 radio stations (552 of them...
...sold $726.3 million worth of air time, radio $516 million. ¶Forty-three million U.S. homes have TV sets (turned on an average 5 hr. 56 min. per day); 48.9 million homes have radios (turned...
...double sound. After a test run in seven cities, Lawrence Welk's Wednesday show (ABC) was broadcast nationwide in stereo, i.e., two different mikes feeding the schmalz into two transmitters. Fans yearning to catch the slightest nuance in each oom-pah-pah could turn on their AM radio as well as the TV set and, by placing them seven to ten feet apart, achieve an approximation of stereo sound. The experiment worked so well that ABC equipped 75 stations with the TV-radio rig, and NBC will try the same gimmick with the George Gobel show. Says a network...
Next Time St. Vincent's. This, too, was something of an exaggeration. Jonathan Harshman Winters III, 32, longtime vagrant on radio, TV and in nightclubs, easily one of the funniest comedians in the business, is hardly an idiot, even though his humor springs out of and depends on idiocy. Last week Winters displayed his loony magic in Chicago's Black Orchid nightclub, racing hysterically through his varied roles-from a harassed father scared of his own kids, to the whole cast of a jail break complete with the rataplan of a Tommy gun, produced by his elastic larynx...
...trouble, according to Bing, is that "the American public has been completely ruined by the press, radio, television and the movies; they have been so educated to the star cult that even the smallest little provincial city will take opera only if it has a star. I see no desire of the public in the country to build opera from young companies." What about Santa Fe, which has recently formed a successful summer opera company? "Where," said Rudi Bing, "is Santa Fe?" In a rare, ruffled moment, he added: "Perhaps I am too much of a European...