Word: telecast
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Under Dr. Smythe's supervision, 18 hardy viewers sat in relays in a Manhattan hotel room watching, for an entire week, all the shows telecast on seven TV sets tuned to each of the New York channels. Out of the seven-day ordeal, the viewers got 1) eyestrain, 2) recurrent headaches, 3) a low opinion of commercial television. Some of their findings...
...lawyers, publicity men and engineers into the fray. In Chicago, Sarnoff stopped the CBS victory march dead in its tracks by getting a federal court order suspending the FCC decision until three judges can pass on its merits (TIME, Nov. 27). In practice, this means that CBS may telecast in color, but only at its own expense. Until the court decides, no CBS color programs may be sponsored...
After polling U.S. radio & TV editors the tradesheet Radio Daily last week an nounced their favorite shows and perform ers of 1950. In the TV documentary field MARCH OF TIME'S filmed Crusade in Eu rope (ABC-TV) scored a repeat win (first telecast in 1949, Crusade won a Peabody Award). Documentary honors in radio went to NBC's four-part atomic program The Quick and the Dead, starring Bob Hope...
...entered the Chamber, 50 men from the musicians' union rose and thundered the national anthem. Outside, thousands of Mexicans saw and heard their President speak over hundreds of television sets installed in cantinas, clubs and the Merced market. It was Mexico's first big-time telecast, over the capital's new station XHTV...
...Chicago, United Paramount Theaters, Inc. signed an agreement to pipe Western Conference football games into three Chicago theaters and one in Detroit. Since no Big Ten games will be telecast to the public this fall, the four theaters will have exclusive rights to the games as they are played. NBC Vice President "Chic" Showerman happily ticked off the advantages: "On large-screen theater TV you can smell the players, they're that close. You can go to a game, you won't have to wear the old raccoon coat, and you don't have to get drunk...