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...polkas played by the Grenadiers, a 19-year-old band that has become a Wisconsin institution. For youngsters, there is "hot" Pianist Tommy Sheridan; for oldsters, a schmalzy program of old songs called Let's Remember. Every Sunday, WTMJ-TV sends a mobile crew and two cameras to telecast services from a different Milwaukee church...
...Sophie Eisenberg, an ardent hockey fan, was engrossed in a telecast from Madison Square Garden of a game be tween Montreal's Canadiens and the New York Rangers. She was particularly interested, she said later in federal court be cause her friend and fellow fan, Jonas Walvisch, had promised to wave to her from a front-row seat. On her 10-inch screen, said Mrs. Eisenberg, she saw Canadiens Player Emile Bouchard clout Jonas on the head with a hockey stick just as her friend leaned forward to wave Asked the defendant's attorney: "Did you wave back...
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...
...week, 2,723 commercial advertisements took up 55 hours (10%) of program time. Not counted by the viewers: slogans and product names sometimes displayed on signs throughout the entire show. On weekdays, commercials averaged up to 146 seconds, took up as much as 32.7% of the day's telecast...
...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...