Word: radiomen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week White, 53, got his biggest assignment. He was named president of NBC, succeeding Joseph H. McConnell, 46, who resigned, reportedly to be president of Colgate-Palmolive-Peet. White thus became the first man ever to have headed two major networks. Radiomen guessed that RCA-NBC Chairman David Sarnoff is not completely satisfied with NBC's bulky overhead and slowness to fight back against CBS competition, and hopes that White will tune NBC into a better wave length...
Television of games this year was controlled by the NCAA. The important question now is whether or not the televising of football games really did affect attendance. Writers and radiomen's opinions on this question vary greatly; about half believe that the controlled plan helped while the other half thought that it didn...
Even then, old radiomen kept their eyes on Sarnoff. He is the man who put radio in the home-and never forgets it for a waking moment. He is boss of RCA with its 52,000 employees (including those of the 238-station NBC radio and television network), of 13 manufacturing plants which turn out millions of radios, TV sets and hundreds of different electronic gadgets, of a research staff which year in & year out develops new wonders. Would Sarnoff, who boasts that he was born about the same time that the electron was discovered (as if they were somehow...
...news, other radiomen whipped out their audience charts to see what they should do. Said American Broadcasting Co.: "We shall meet the competition." National Broadcasting Co., which tried to cut its own radio rates last winter but was howled down by its affiliated stations, was "studying" the move. But with the latest Nielsen report showing that CBS has nine of the top ten evening radio shows, radiomen guessed that NBC would also...
Defenseman Johnny White has been named to the second team of the New England Collegiate Hockey All-Stars by the vote of eight Boston hockey reporters and radiomen and senior referee Cleary. The Harvard-B.C. 10 to 9 contest of February 5 was selected as the year's most exciting game...