Word: rebroadcasting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Boston was not amused last week when NBC decided to rebroadcast Assignment: U.S.A. The city had heard all it wanted to hear last February when the program first went on the air (as one of an NBC series, Words At War-Tues., 11:30 p.m., EWT). But Variety, radio columnists, trade journals, etc. protested that the program said something important and, since NBC put it on at a late hour, without advertising, listeners should be given another chance...
Boston's station WBZ declined to join the 80-station rebroadcast* on the ground that this radio dramatization of Selden Menefee's book Assignments: U.S.A. (a critical survey of wartime America) was more inclined to promote intolerance than tolerance. It was certainly bad advertising for Boston. Said the script: "Nearly every Bostonian you speak to-those who will open up at all-is conscious that something is radically wrong behind the scenes. Isolationism, antiSemitism, pro-appeasement are more rampant in Boston than in any city in the land. . . . The Irish are an absolute majority and run the city...
...Stalin, who seldom broadcasts, usually comes on without announcement. His speech is then read or rebroadcast all day by transcription...
...short-wave broadcast, rebroadcast on U.S. medium wave, was fifth of 13 in the BBC-CBS series Transatlantic Call (Sun., 12 noon, E.W.T.). "Plenty of doughboys come down to look at Lambeth Walk," said one Lambethman, "and there's nothing to see now." From the radio account it appeared that the Walk had been a bent little lane of shops with a pub called The Angel, an Eel Pie Saloon, and, in peacetime, a street market where anything could be had from "a pin to an elephant...
...Crimson Network will pick up the program, relayed through the Yankee Network Boston FM station from the originating New York studios, and rebroadcast it longwave...