Word: telecast
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tortured viewer-sponsor relations: "As a fight fan myself, I was incensed at the inept handling and bad timing. As general manager of Buick, I feel that a public apology is in order, and I assure those interested that this will not happen again on any public-service telecast sponsored by Buick...
...networks decided that one of the year's best running stones did not justify the heavy cost of carrying it, Manhattan's public-service-minded Du Mont Broadcasting Corp. was forking out $50,000 to cover the 5½ hours of hearings daily for three weeks. The telecast unfolded first on Du Mont stations WTTG in Washington and WABD in New York, by week's end was being transmitted to three other cities...
...Commander in Chief took command as soon as the CBS cast and crew of 30 arrived last week to set up the show. The show could not be telecast live on Sunday as it has been for two years, said he, "because this is the Bible belt, and you'd never get anybody to work on Sunday." Producer James Colligan agreed to record the show in advance on Ampex visual tape. Just before rehearsals began, a piano arrived from Kansas City; it was the one given to Truman in the White House by James C. Petrillo and his American...
Paul didn't have television. We can reach more people by TV probably than the population of the world was then." Billy is reaching them by TV (the Trendex for the first live telecast of his New York crusade was 8.1 or 18% of the total audience, as compared to Perry Como with 20 and Jackie Gleason with 12.5). More "decisions for Christ," his headquarters reports, come in from televiewers than from the live audience in the Garden. The live audience is alive too: about 58% of the Garden decisions have been first-time public conversions, but only...
...screen. "Right in your living room," came the muscular Southern voice, "right in your bedrooms, right in a bar-you can let Christ come in." Wearing TV blue but no makeup, Carolina-tanned Billy Graham was bringing down the third-act curtain on the first live U.S. telecast of his New York Crusade. But as Billy continued his "invitation" ("just get up quickly and come right on down"), he was drowned out in a cue mixup by a "special announcer" plugging a Graham book and unctuously imploring viewers to "let us know if Dr. Graham has been a blessing...