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...after he lost the Democratic primary, has been out of office for nearly a decade, he's still throwing his hefty weight around in the City of Brotherly Love. After he lost last year's mayoral race to incumbent W. Wilson Goode, Rizzo became a talk show host on WCAU-AM, one of Philadelphia's highest profile radio talk stations...
...said that he is trying to expand the campaign not only to four other CBS-owned stations but to the network as well. PUSH representatives met with the general managers of WCBS-TV in New York City and KCBS-TV in Los Angeles last week and their counterpart at WCAU-TV in Philadelphia two weeks ago; talks are being sought with KMOX-TV in St. Louis. Next week Jackson will air his complaints at CBS's annual stockholders' meeting in Philadelphia. After that, the preacher- politician plans to launch similar protests against NBC and ABC. Says Jackson: "The other...
Since he began his evening-news spots on Philadelphia's WCAU-TV 16 months ago (after losing a 1974 bid for the Democratic U.S. Senate nomination), Denenberg has flayed the makers of more than 150 products, from sedatives to sugarless gum. Horrible Herb, as he is known among his victims, spices his vitriol with humor. One recent broadcast: "I make sure I get my exercise, get enough rest, and eat healthy food. So I don't need Geritol...
...report also lists the names of all the Philadelphia policemen assigned to the demonstration, and the name of a reporter who covered it for WCAU-TV in Philadelphia. In a section headlined"Signs," it mentions a single placard reading "Science is for helping people, not removing them in Vietnam or West Philadelphia...
...other difficulty, says Matthew Robinson, a Negro and producer-host of Opportunity Line on Philadelphia's WCAU-TV, is to break through the ghetto dweller's "apprehension or reticence" about visiting an employment office. Even so, about half of the viewers who phone WCAU-TV for information on Saturday go to the employment office the next week. And why not? About half of them get work, and many others wind up in training programs or counseling that eventually makes them employable...