Word: telecasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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...
...York City last week, television went underground. After filming sections of the Ford Theater's production of Subway Express in the I.R.T. subway between Chambers Street and Pennsylvania Station, Producer Winston O'Keefe moved nearly 100 actors, technicians and camera crewmen up to The Bronx for a telecast from an isolated subway car in the I.R.T. Jerome Avenue yard...
Coincidentally, the current issue of Ebony, a U.S. Negro picture magazine, finds that Negro entertainers are winning better roles in TV than in any other entertainment medium. "At one time in recent months as many as ten all-Negro shows were being telecast in the U.S., including one in the South." Ebony quoted Georg Olden, who heads the Graphic Art staff for CBS-TV: "There are and will be lots of openings in all departments. The only question is [will Negroes] be prepared to take advantage of them...
Under Phonevision, subscribers would have their specially equipped TV sets hooked up to their telephones. Normally, the Phonevision broadcast of a new movie, sports event or Broadway show would be "scrambled," i.e., it would be telecast as a meaningless blur by blocking key frequencies from the television band and channeling them through telephone wires. If a Phonevision subscriber wanted to see a movie, he would call the operator and she would plug in the missing frequencies to unscramble the broadcast. The fee for each movie (perhaps $1) would be put on the phone bill, and McDonald would share it with...