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Dates: during 1950-1959
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In Manhattan, Superjock Alan Freed, already fired by WABC radio, lost his second job in two weeks, was sacked by WNEW-TV. Showing up for his final broadcast last week, Freed waded through crowds of sobbing teenagers, comforted them ("Now don't cry"), accepted a bound scroll from a...
A sometime window washer with a personality greatly appealing to himself ("I am such a sweet little guy"), Tom Clay first went to work as a record spinner at Detroit's WJBK two years ago. What happened to him thereafter until he was fired last week makes a typical...
Responsibility for what appears on TV, said NBC, should be properly spread among networks, local TV stations, independent producers, ad agencies, advertisers, and the viewing public. Possible members of a "public policy committee": the president of the American Bar Association, the president of Vassar, an ex-chairman of General Electric...
CBS summed up the citizens' committee idea in three words: passing the buck. Added Frank Stanton: "What is every body's business is nobody's business, and eventually becomes Government enterprise." Television should resist any sort of outside control. "We must be masters of our own house...
With both CBS and ABC against his plan, Adman Larmon conceded that it had little chance of success. NBC bought a full-page ad in eleven U.S. newspapers to say that the network "assumes complete responsibility to the public for what appears on NBC." But the ad also insisted that...