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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...
...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...