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