Word: telecasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From the standpoint of the televiewer, pay-as-you-see promises great benefits: better shows and no commercials. Broadway shows and top sporting events now kept off the air because of the promoters' fear of falling gate receipts would be telecast. First-run movies would supplement the antiques now filling the screens; opera and ballet, which seldom come into the living room, could be telecast. Pay-as-you-see could put the Metropolitan Opera on a solid financial basis. And pay-as-you-see, instead of keeping audiences away from such events, might stimulate as much interest in them...
Bing Crosby Show (CBS-TV). The Crooner's first regular telecast, a long time abrewing, arrived last week with an unmistakable thud. The filmed show was reminiscent of many of the earliest TV efforts: Crosby spent much of his time standing in front of a stage curtain, delivering mild jokes that were greeted with uproarious laughter supplied by a film sound track. Jack Benny appeared as a foil and traded fairly predictable banter with Crosby. Bing sang four songs, danced with a chorus, and was so smothered in facial makeup as to be expressionless. The most exciting thing...
...Broadcasting Corp. Some are motivated by simple boredom at their present TV fare, others by the fear that all sponsored television will promptly descend to the level of J. Fred Muggs, the U.S. chimpanzee who was used to interrupt a New York showing of the BBC's coronation telecast...
...produce .a television show about it. The show will be presented on Sunday afternoon, Dec. 6, from 5 to 6 (E.S.T.), on one of the biggest television hookups ever arranged. Called "The Man of the Year Revue," it will originate from NBC-TV in New York and will be telecast over more than a hundred stations. The program will focus on the newsmakers of this year, the statesmen, scientists, soldiers, the heroes and the villains who made the good and bad news, the history and gossip of 1953. In addition, the Man of the Year Revue program will bring before...
...designed to eliminate the commercial message from TV and to move the box office right into the viewer's living room. For a fee inserted into the Telemeter gadget attached to each TV set (Palm Springs Telemetered viewers paid $1.35 to see Forever Female; $1 to watch the telecast of the Notre Dame-U.S.C. football game), set owners can watch new movies, sports events and show-business spectacles in the privacy of their homes...