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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...government network, the Canadian Broadcasting Corp.). Under its proposed code, the new stations-as well as the old-would be required to provide 55% Canadian programing, stay off the air until noon, reserve two hours of prime evening time for programs of which the governors approve. Private broadcasters see this code as deadly to profits, arguing that 55% Canadian programs would necessarily be of such poor quality that viewers would be driven en masse to tuning in neighboring U.S. stations instead...
Never before had television's "image" (as Madison Avenue likes to put it) been so tarnished in the public mind. It was plain from the hearings on the quiz fixes (see below) that the scandal had not been isolated; both NBC and CBS, all quiz shows in general, and hundreds of individuals were deeply involved. A more disturbing note on U.S. morals, 1959: of 150 quiz witnesses who appeared before the New York County grand jury and swore before God (or on their affirmations) to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, no less than...
...folded himself uncomfortably into the witness chair, gulped some water, then stripped away the last layer of illusion separating him from the shills. "I would give almost anything I have to reverse the course of my life in the last three years," began Van Doren in a remarkable confession (see...
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...personally responsible for bringing most of its quiz shows to NBC ("And I'm not ashamed of it") reflected little of television's potential magic. The same witness chair had been occupied for four days by a tawdry succession of fixers and schlockmeisters, corrupters and corrupted (see above). Bob Kintner had gone to Washington with the difficult task of showing that 1) NBC had done everything that could be reasonably expected to prevent or detect fraud on the quiz shows, and 2) the quiz scandals did not reflect a sickness in other areas of television...