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Last year NTA bought its first station, Minneapolis' KMGM-TV (now KMSP-TV), last week bought Newark's faltering WATV and its radio affiliates for $4,500,-ooo and renamed it WNTA. Now NTA is angling for a full FCC-allowed quota of five TV stations. On the stock market last week, NTA shares sold at close to $10-three times their price two years ago. Its assets have passed the $40 million mark...
...first day, WNTA had reaped a 10.6 A.R.B. rating, captured 17% of the TV audience, increased its number of viewers (over WATV) 4,200%. Wrote the New York Times's Jack Gould: "WNTA-TV has shaken up tired old New York television...
...parts in two movies. That night he climbed into the ring at Newark's Laurel Gardens for a heavyweight fight with a boxer named Willie Huff. Televiewers saw Miller knocked down twice, were spared seeing him knocked out only because of a transmission failure by station WATV...
...Hoboken saloon, the children's hour began at 6 p.m. He shooed the drinkers out and waved the moppets in. They perched on bar stools or sat on, around and sometimes under the tables to watch Radigan's television: Du Mont's Small Fry Club, WATV's Junior Frolics, and such. Creepers and toddlers were allowed to bring mother along. At 7, the barkeep swept out the bairns and let the guzzlers in again...
...Newark, N.J., WATV went on the air, giving the New York area its fourth television station. Buffalo's first station took to the air, and Boston is scheduled to start this week. On June 15 the New York Daily News will open its stationWPIX (New York City's fifth). A mile away, on the roof of the Hotel Pierre, ABC will start transmitting over station WJZ-TV (New York City's sixth) in August...
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