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Radio City's executive eyebrows, the hypersensitive seismographs of the broadcasting industry, were twitching excitedly. Cinemactor Ronald Colman's new transcribed show, Favorite Story, was having its premiere over Chicago's WMAQ. To many a radioman it sounded like an early, diffident mumble of an earthquake that might upset the whole map of U.S. commercial radio...
...Many a radioman agreed with FCC, even though the decision was bound to delay color. CBS's Stanton said sadly that CBS could not afford to spend much more cash on color. Black & white would have the field to itself, and RCA would be out ahead. (It now manufactures most of the sets being turned...
...first radioman she approached with her idea said bluntly: "It stinks. Too educational." Her first big Quizdown, jointly sponsored by the Chicago Times and Station WLS, went on the air in October 1945. It has gone on weekly ever since, sponsored by newspapers and local radio stations in Pittsburgh, St. Louis, Detroit, Miami, San Diego. Next month Columbus, Ohio, becomes her 14th Quiz-down town...
Godfrey took many a detour on the road to radio fame & fortune. He made a "nice dollar" selling cemetery lots as "investments," played M.C. in a Chicago saloon, "supported by the first nude chorus in vaudeville," and did a hitch as a Coast Guard radioman before he ever stood up to a microphone...
Would a Congressman talk at breakfast -at an 8 a.m. breakfast? Harry Truman laughed at the question. "Will he talk? Just give him a microphone and stand aside. "Washington Radioman Bill Herson did. Result: The capital's liveliest, most popular breakfast program, Coffee with Congress, which last week began its second year over Station...