Word: wrca
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...York City's population were U.S. citizens when they arrived, and about half of them continue to speak nothing but Spanish. Last week, by the early dawning (6:307 a.m.) light of TV, some of them were learning their new home's native tongue. The program: WRCA-TV's Aqui se Habla Ingles (English Spoken Here...
Marriage Revealed. Geoffrey Home, 24, cinemactor (the commando recruit in The Bridge on the River Kwai); and Nancy Berg, 26, actress-model, onetime sandwoman of Manhattan's WRCA-TV late late mattress-sponsored show Count Sheep; in Manhattan...
...Manhattan itself, which has no educational TV station, NBC's key station WRCA will broadcast kinescopes of the series during slack hours on Saturdays and Sundays. But millions of U.S. viewers are out of range of the educational stations-they will get no benefit from the NBC project, and will have to take hope for the future in the high intentions voiced by commercial broadcasters fortnight ago at a Boston conference on public-service programing, hosted by the Westinghouse Broadcasting Co. Many would agree with Guest Speaker Charles (Twenty One) Van Doren, who told the conference: "You can have...
...busy badger: WRCA's Gabriel Pressman, 33, who a fortnight ago plunked his camera equipment and crew down before a public hearing at City Hall in defiance of the city council's ban on TV. Ordered out, Reporter Pressman replied: "You'll have to eject us." Then he tried to force the council's hand by asking it to vote on whether he could remain. Pressman's request was denied; he and his crew were bounced by the sergeant at arms. But the furor brought top New York broadcasting brass together for a showdown with...
...admitted, one of the two U.S. correspondents at the trial (the other: U.P.'s Ed Korry). Back in the U.S., Pressman got a job as a City Hall reporter for the New York World-Telegram, then, 2½ years ago, joined NBC's Manhattan station WRCA to become its first roving radio-TV reporter. "I've covered everything from the Andrea Doria sinking to the catching of a boa constrictor in a Bronx supermarket," says Pressman, who packs a 20-lb. tape recorder as habitually as a city room legman packs a batch of copy paper...