Word: telesets
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Dates: during 1948-1948
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...many people were tuned to a Theatre Guild telecast as were listening to radio's popular Fred Allen. Though some experts are already counting radio out, most think it will survive, if only as an auxiliary arm of television. Best guess: radio will be absorbed into the teleset. And there will still be programs for the 9,300,000 automobile radios, for housewives who are too busy to look, and for the blind...
...major films-past or present-using union musicians. Result: only B pictures or antiques reach the telescreen. Another factor: cautious, fiercely competitive Hollywood moves slowly-as it did in taking up sound 21 years ago. The highest hurdle is the real, ever-present fear that the living room teleset will make a deep dent in the nation's movie box offices...
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