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...Hollywood was now almost knee-deep in TV. Warner Brothers closed a $1,000,000 deal (contingent on the FCC's sanction) with New York Post Publisher Dorothy Thackrey to buy her two West Coast radio stations and a precious Los Angeles TV permit. Paramount already owns two stations, is bidding against 20th Century-Fox for a San Francisco channel. Twentieth Century-Fox announced that it will now also produce films specially for television. Only two major studios (MGM, RKO Radio) still hang back. "The whole industry," said one film maker, "is either jumping or jumpy...
...service on the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry on Palestine turned him into an author (Behind the Silken Curtain); he is now an ardent advocate of partition. In moving to Manhattan, he will give up, among other things, the presidency of two radio stations owned by Ted and Dorothy Thackrey, owners of the New York Post...
Dorothy Schiff Thackrey has plenty of money (about $8 million) and plenty of mother instinct. In 1939 she had enough of both left over, after amply providing for her own three children, to adopt the undernourished little New York Post (1938 loss: about $1,000,000). In five years she had fed it (mainly with columnists) into a fat, sassy brat (1944 profit: $300,000). "And now," she announced last week, "I have another sick baby...
...demanded at least that much attention. It had all the standard problems of any independent-the unequal struggle with networks for talent, sponsors and listeners-plus the competition of New York's ten other independents. And Manager Thackrey had made an uphill fight steeper by adopting a principle which most radiomen consider a contradiction in terms: "I want to make the station pay, and still make it do a real public service." But she also had advantages which few independent radiomen could match: practically unlimited cash and connections...
...emphasis," Mrs. Thackrey says, "will be on programs with some real intellectual insides. I know nobody has ever listened to them. But I think they would if such things were done really well and with some showmanship. We're going to concentrate on that. The sponsors will come along when people start to listen. Why, in a year we'll be right back in the black...