Word: treyz
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Vegas Show was overbilled (TIME, May 12), and sponsor backing was overestimated. Last week, with another $450,000 due to cover its A.T. & T. cable costs for June, United, as one broadcaster put it, "simply couldn't pay its phone bill." So, 23 nights after it started, Ollie Treyz's "fourth network" went...
Five weeks ago, the so-called United Network went on the TV screens in 106 U.S. cities with the Las Vegas Show, a two-hour club crawl of the "Strip." The program, promised United President Oliver Treyz, would be "the most exciting and dynamic variety show ever televised," and would by fall enable him to add six more hours of daily programing and news, and thus make United a full-fledged competing fourth network. Bold words-considering that they came from a modest headquarters over a Woolworth's store on Manhattan's East Side...
...nothing immoral that would be out of place on the home screen." Onward. But Dodd was unsatisfied with learning that sex is a many-splendored thing. "We have heard such terms as the 'Kintner edict,' the 'Aubrey dictum' and what could be termed the 'Treyz [for Oliver, recently jettisoned ABC president] trend,' a trend, I might add, away from the high moral standards of practice set by each network," he said darkly. "A look at the history of those three gentlemen may give a clue to the development of their program philosophies. All were...
...within the industry, Salesman Treyz acquired a reputation for juggling time-slots to suit the biggest client (Variety has twice headlined stories on Treyz's broken promises with "But Ollie You Said...
...Treyz's services, said the official announcement from Goldenson, would be utilized "in other areas, aside from broadcasting...