Word: watv
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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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...
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