Word: telecasting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dave Garroway Show (Fri. 8 p.m., NBCTV) is an attempt to return to the format and happy informality of the 1949-51 Garroway-at-Large show, which was telecast from Chicago. Though Garroway is using some of the same cast, technical crew and relaxed manner that he employed in the original show, he seems to have left some valuable ingredient behind in moving to Manhattan. NBC should offer a large reward for its immediate return...
...play, Flamingo, telecast on last week's Danger, was written by Steve Allen. The music for the featured song, Forbidden Love, was composed by Steve Allen. The leading man: Steve Allen. Allen admits to even greater versatility: "I can play the tuba, make up songs from any four notes struck at random, and do a lot of stupid little things like a tap dance with my fingernails." In addition, Allen records bebop fairy tales, is writing a novel ("It's about the crackup of a marriage"), is working on a critical analysis of his fellow TV comics ranging...
Allen's best performance is given on the show seen by the fewest people, his 40-minute, late-at-night program telecast locally in New York City. In four months he has built up the same sort of fanatic following that once belonged to Jerry Lester and Dagmar. But, unlike the frenzied Broadway Open House, the Steve Allen Show is often relaxed to the point of torpor. Steve sits at a table, fidgeting with his mail, complaining about the public-address system, or asking unimportant questions of his off-camera crew. Sometimes he has his barber in to give...
Even though many big news stories are telecast, publishers no longer fear TV as a threat to daily newspaper circulation. They have decided that TV, if it does anything for them, whets rather than dulls readers' appetites for printed news. But for working newspapermen, TV is often an obstruction to good reporting. Last week, writing in the International Press Institute's monthly Report, the New York Times's able United Nations correspondent. A. M. Rosenthal. told why. The trouble, wrote Rosenthal, is that TV "is not interested primarily in news but in entertainment," and it requires...
TELEMETER, Paramount Pictures' device for bringing first-run movies and special events to tele viewers, will shortly get its first test (and the first test of any method of telecasting first-run movies). In Palm Springs, Calif., 400 homes will see a feature film the same night it is premiered in movie houses. Viewers will drop coins into their sets to "unscramble" the telecast, which cannot be received on an unmetered...