Word: radiomen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...chief of Special Projects of United Nations Radio, Corwin advised his readers that radiomen want "the safe, routine, unspectacular, competent, journeyman script . . . with maybe a fresh twist no bigger than what you give to a lemon peel in a Martini." In TV, the writer is even less important: he "must step aside for Gorgeous George, Garrulous Godfrey . . . westerns, British films from the bottom of the vault, midget autos, roller-skating derbies . . . kitchen and fashion demonstrators, giveaways, and the upper slopes of Faye Emerson." But if he is willing "to curb his imagination" and to look on the medium...
...KTSL, it will also have to get FCC approval and sell its present 49% interest in the Los Angeles Times's competing television station, KTTV. On the off chance that some hitch would develop, Les Hoffman let his bid stand. After last week's surprise, radiomen would not believe that the Don Lee network had been sold until General, CBS, Hoffman or somebody actually moved in and took over the stations...
What the committeemen think about the U.S. brand will finally be incorporated in their report. It may surprise U.S. radiomen who confidently believe that the U.S. leads the world. Justin Miller, president of the U.S. National Association of Broadcasters, has dismissed British and all foreign radio as "dull, lifeless dishwater . . . and great doses of government propaganda...
...Many radiomen think the Chicago experiment is doomed. They see a parallel between what is happening in TV and what happened in radio in the '30s, when Chicago pioneered in low-budget dramas, documentaries like The Empire Builders, and situation comedies like Amos 'n' Andy, Fibber McGee & Molly, and Vic and Sade. By 1937, almost 400 network shows a month were originating in Chicago for NBC alone. Then New York money and Hollywood climate and opportunities began to siphon off Chicago's talented radiomen, and most of the remaining shows degenerated into a mishmash of successful...
Neither radio nor television has yet produced anything to match such notable, on-the-spot broadcasts of World War II as the round-the-clock reports from the Normandy beachhead, the liberation of Paris, or the running account of a bombing raid on Berlin. But radiomen were taking considerable satisfaction from the surveys which showed a sharp climb in radio news audiences (up 18% over last year). With listeners hungry for early, accurate news reports from the Korean front, many a television owner was beginning to turn back to his radio again...