Word: rko
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...group in Boston is as involved in rock 'n' roll gold as the current college population, and RKO, in its one year on the air, has easily captured the student audience, so this upcoming extravaganza seems perfect--in theory. But in actuality, what has happened? The R-KO list is based on cards sent in by listeners last spring. And not only were voters limited to their top three, choices, but a prize was offered for the voter whose list coincided with the final tally. As a result, almost all the 5,000 ballots coalesced around 15 teenybopper standards...
...other manufacturing operations in Akron, now devotes special attention to the company's missile-making arm, Aerojet-General, which has been nicked by the aerospace cutbacks. In Manhattan, Chairman Thomas O'Neil, 49, a onetime Holy Cross College football star, oversees the company's entertainment subsidiary, RKO General, and specializes in acquisitions. And John O'Neil, 47, an extraverted intellectual who once studied for the priesthood, heads the finance committee...
...wealthy merchant. William started diversifying almost by accident; in 1940 he bought a radio station as a gift for a fourth son -now in private business in Florida-who was not interested in tires. Soon William began acquiring stations of his own. In 1955 he added Hollywood's RKO complex-which he bought from Howard Hughes for $25 million-and formed RKO General, a subsidiary that accounted for about 20% of General's 1964 profits of $37 million. Today RKO General owns seven radio and five TV stations, a community antenna television company, 123 movie theaters, Pittsburgh Outdoor...
American Corp. of Los Angeles, which owns 30 scattered systems serving 80,000 subscribers; it is followed by TelePrompTer Corp. of New York, whose 16 networks serve 60,000 customers. Their success in the field has already attracted several major corporations: CBS. Warner Bros, and RKO General all own CATV systems, and General Electric and Litton Industries are studying the field. Of the 522 television stations in the U.S., fully half have some interest in cable TV, among them Lady Bird Johnson's KTBC in Austin, Texas. So fast has cable television grown that the inevitable is happening...
Puzzled Spacemen. Crandall has been doing this from 7:45 until midnight for a month. He got the job because WNBC was flopping on the bottom of the New York radio ratings barrel. Noting that RKO's WOR had long held top position by putting on talk shows around the clock, WNBC decided to do the same-with Brad Crandall doing most of the talking...