Word: wbbm
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REYNOLDS, Frank, 45, ABC News analyst. Born in East Chicago, Ind., attended Indiana University and Wabash College. Anchor man at WBKB-TV, Chicago, 1950; writer-producer-reporter at WBBM-CBS, Chicago, 1951-63. ABC Chicago correspondent, 1963-65, and ABC White House correspondent, 1965-68. Married, five sons...
...Chicago's WBBM-TV, eight seconds after the show signs on, all 30 phone lines are tied up. The morning after a Jobathon on Los Angeles' KTTV-TV last August, 6,000 applicants were queued outside of California state employment offices...
Ghetto Communication. Most of those job seekers were from slum areas, for the program is everywhere targeted primarily at minority groups. Edward Kenefick, general manager of Chicago's WBBM-TV, got the idea for the show when Urban League officials asked him to help find employment for young Negroes. The newspapers were full of want-ads, but only one-seventh of ghetto families see a paper, while two-thirds have TV sets...
...Nardi made his broadcasting debut as a substitute disk jockey, struggled hysterically to keep up the machinegun patter. Sample: "Hey there! That was the great Ramsey Lewis Duo. . . aah. . .trio. . .whee. . .It's. . .aah. . . . . .three minutes. . .aah. . .I mean twelve minutes after three. . . wheee." At Chicago's WBBM-TV, Salesman Frank Palmer all but burned up the airways. Winding up the 5 p.m. news, he lit his pipe just like a real Walter Cronkite, burned his fingers, dumped tobacco all over the desk, grinned wanly and shrugged. In Los Angeles, KNBC viewers telephoned the station to complain that...
...ballet scored higher ratings than its competition. NBC's The Virginian and ABC's Wagon Train. Philadelphia showed young actors in Thornton Wilder's Pullman Car Hiawatha. Two Chicago housewives-whose principal credits are six children-contributed a short play to Chicago's WBBM-TV about how difficult it was to kill the monk Rasputin. Actor Val Bettin was a triumph of holy lechery with a soft ten-inch beard around smacking wet lips...