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...WGAR, a Cleveland rock station, promoted a Watergate Weekend, with local disk jockeys supplying musical-answer "interviews." "Senator McGovern, what would you have said if you had known your office was bugged...
...WGAR plans another weekend with a giveaway fillip-electronic "buggers," small gadgets for doing in insects...
...once, radio & TV men refused to take it lying down. Manager James Hanrahan of television station WEWS-TV retorted: "We haven't a single episode as gory as Dick Tracy in the Cleveland News." Charles Day, news director of radio station WGAR, joined in by pointing to the full newspaper coverage of a recent paternity case. Day said, virtuously, that "no Cleveland station touched that kind of material, for our standards of news coverage frowns on it. Before self-chosen newspaper critics start cleaning house elsewhere, let them look into their own pages...
...F.C.C. considers the charges against G. A. Richards verified, it can take away his license to operate KMPC in Los Angeles, WJR in Detroit, and WGAR in Cleveland. Richards denies the charges and would undoubtedly appeal an adverse decision to the courts. He claims the investigation is a penalty for his opposition to the Truman administration...
Last week a special MARCH OF TIME program dramatizing the Bataan fighting was recorded Friday night and sent out to the real dramatis personae on Saturday. On Saturday, too, Cleveland's station WGAR did itself proud with the most notable program by an inland station yet short-waved to the Philippines. Dedicated to General MacArthur and his men was a Te Deum composed in 1936 by the Hungarian composer Zoltan Kodaly, to celebrate the 250th anniversary of Budapest's emancipation from Turkey. The program -by the Cleveland Orchestra -was short-waved "live" from Cleveland's Severance Hall...