Word: wbz
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Harvard station wishes to switch to a different broadcasting frequency in order to increase its wattage and to avoid any interference with WBZ...
Saturday's game at Yale will be televised over WBZ-TV, Channel 4, starting at 1:15 p.m., University officials have announced. Thomas D. Bolles, director of athletics, denied published reports that the telecast would be an innovation in the history of the match...
...hula mood. Rock 'n' roll faltered slightly when ballads (Love Letters in the Sand, Tammy) began catching on again, and a few of the U.S.'s disk jockeys report that ballads are continuing to cut into rock 'n' roll popularity. From staid Boston, WBZ's Bill Marlowe states flatly that "Rock 'n' roll has had it. The teen-agers are beginning to look to better music." But in Los Angeles the craze is just as strong as ever, and in Atlanta, jukebox operators and record shop proprietors say that rock...
...fill the void, Boston radio and TV stations hired laid-off reporters and beefed up their newscasts, but still were without the legmen to give listeners more than fragmentary local news coverage. An outdoor advertising company teamed with WBZ-TV and WNAC-TV to spread an outsize Page One across two Boston Common billboards twice daily. Some of the most enterprising makeshift newspapers were put out for employees by Boston insurance companies. American Mutual Liability Insurance published a multilith bulletin under the slogan: ALL THE NEWS...
...WBZ-TV yesterday thrust a monumental task on the shoulders of three local academicians during a telecast called "Destiny Makers." Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. '38, professor of History, Donald Bigelow, professor of history at Brandeis, and John H. Laverly, professor of philosophy at B.U., undertook to determine the names of the five most influential Americans of the first half of the 20th century...