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Pantomime Quiz is based on the old parlor game of charades, and particularly on its more sophisticated descendant, The Game, which became popular in the 1930s. While attending Los Angeles City College in 1939, Stokey and other students played The Game on experimental TV (call letters: W6XAO) from a tiny studio over a car dealer's garage. "There were probably more people in the studio than there were viewers," Stokey recalls, "but even then I felt it was undeniable TV material." After a stint as an NBC announcer and 3½ years' war service in the Air Force...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TV & Radio: Hardy Perennial | 7/29/1957 | See Source »

...Angeles, Don Lee's W6XAO, the oldest TV station in the U.S. (17 years), quit calling itself experimental, and went commercial. In Atlanta, Louisville, Cincinnati, Fort Worth, Stockton, Calif, and 50 other U.S. cities, television towers were going...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The Infant Grows Up | 5/24/1948 | See Source »

...Angeles, W6XAO was the first West Coast station to telecast a symphony directly from a concert hall. From a balcony and a box, the cameras made sweeping goo-goo eyes at Yehudi Menuhin, the Los Angeles Symphony, and the audience. But the result was dull and fuzzy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Zoom | 4/12/1948 | See Source »

...Angeles; KFRC, San Francisco; KGB, San Diego; KDB, Santa Barbara), just became associated with six smaller ones. The late Don Lee, a successful automobile distributor, bought his first station in 1926, founded the chain in 1928. The system began television experimenting in 1931, now televises nightly over W6XAO, once a week with synchronized sound from KHJ. President of Don Lee Broadcasting System since his father died in 1934 has been Thomas Stewart Lee, 30, a favorite in Hollywood cinema circles and a shrewd manager of Don Lee's auto and radio interests...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: M. B. S. | 1/4/1937 | See Source »

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