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Gloomily surveying a horde of swarming hopefuls entered in Tennessee's impending primary elections, Nashville's WSM-TV and WLAC-TV have imposed strict limits on the total air time to be sold to any one candidate. WSM-TV ruled that the eight contestants for the Democratic nomination for Governor would be allocated a maximum of 45 minutes each between now and the primary on Aug. 7. Slightly more generous, WLAC-TV allowed them one hour of prime evening time, half an hour of nonpremium time. Candidates for the U.S. Senate and House will get the same allowance...
Even under the restrictions, WSM-TV and WLAC-TV were committed to 33 intermittent hours of political haranguing if all eligible candidates bought all the time allocated them. Plainly, by commercial if not political standards, both stations considered even 33 hours too much...
Nashville's plugging has so far raised Smith's income to nearly $1,500 a week, promises to push it even higher. Says WSM Program Director Jack Stapp, the Rudolf Bing of Grand Ole Opry: "He's going like wildfire." Says Smith in his soft Tennessee drawl: "I'm very well pleased...
After years of trying, she got to sing a song on the daddy of hillbilly radio programs, Grand 01' Opry, over Station WSM at Nashville. Then she made a hit yowling Ground Hog with Frank Moore and His Log Cabin Boys over WHAS, Louisville. Moore named her Cousin Emmy, and eventually she had her own air show. Two years ago KMOX hired...
Grand Ol' Opry is a four-hour, mountain-music hoe-down broadcast every Saturday night by WSM, Nashville, Tenn., and carried in part over a network of 25 southern NBC Stations. It has been on the air 14 years, now has eight sponsors (main account: Prince Albert Tobacco; others: lamps, cough drops, chicory, even snuff). A half -hour of it is now recorded for Prince Albert, put on the air in Los Angeles, Denver, Kansas City, Minneapolis...