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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...
...Tulsa's station KOTV telecast a ten-minute program called Telenews-Daily, which the station had bought from Telenews Productions, Inc. of New York City. The Joneses sat up expectantly when they heard the announcer say: "Two wounded men from Oklahoma." They moved closer to the TV set and watched the camera pan to a close-up shot of a wounded U.S. soldier sitting on a stretcher. Mr. & Mrs. Jones stared incredulously. The soldier on the stretcher was their son, Sergeant 1st class Lowell Jones, 29, a World War II veteran who went to Japan last January...
...York, NBC and its parent company, Radio Corp. of America, offered the full $200,000 backing for the forthcoming Broadway musical Call Me Madam. In addition to profits, RCA would get the record rights to the Irving Berlin music and NBC hopes to sew up telecast rights to the script...