Word: stantons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...build its vitality and prestige, said Murrow, is for the networks and stations to use their neglected right to editorialize. Last week, in a speech at the National Press Club in Washington, Murrow's boss, CBS President Frank Stanton, also upheld the right of broadcasters to editorialize, but stressed how thorny a right it is. TV, complained Stanton, lacks the tradition and experience of the press in editorializing; moreover, "it would be most difficult [for networks] to take editorial positions acceptable to all our affiliated stations." Commentator Murrow had a more succinct explanation for the failure of broadcasters...
...London for Derby Week, when the "talk of the town is 'orses, 'orses, 'orses," the San Francisco Chronicle's Stanton Delaplane could not restrain his admiration for the way the British press writes about 'orses. For readers of his syndicated column back home, Pulitzer Prizewinner Delaplane described the basic English race-track story...
Cold Pro. In Boston, two days after he offered Bay State motorists a column of "Tips on Cold Day Starting," Automotive Editor Harry Stanton of the Globe called the city desk, told why he was late for work: his car didn't have enough antifreeze...
What Ratings Can't Do. The ideal system, according to CBS President Frank Stanton, would be "to get a Nielsen rating the morning after." The industry now waits almost a month for the reports. Nielsen has devised an Audimeter that can transmit readings instantly to Nielsen offices by leased lines and, at the request of TV brass, is preparing an estimate of what his service would cost on an instantaneous or overnight basis. He holds hope that it may be economically feasible...
...side. It was CBS that, out of its own pocket, set up hourlong, closed-circuit telecasts last month so that Butler and Republican National Chairman Leonard Hall could give instructions to delegates to both conventions. CBS also made a kinescope of Keynoter Frank Clement rehearsing his big speech, and Stanton himself gave the Tennessee governor pointers on TV technique...