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...herself or whether the dog alone was to blame. These juvenile soul-searchings have proved so attractive to listeners that, last week, the Illinois Meat Co. added new territory to the family by putting a transcribed 15-minute version of the Johnson chitchat over stations WCBS in New York, WTAM in Cleveland, and WXYZ in Detroit...
Last week Eddie's story and description were broadcast as the third of a new NBC crime documentary series called Wanted (NBC, Fri. 10 p.m. E.D.T.).* A few minutes after Cleveland's WTAM finished airing Wanted,, the station switchboard began buzzing with phone calls from people who were sure they had seen Eddie in town in the last few months...
Captain David Kerr, chief of Cleveland's homicide squad, set a close watch on WTAM's switchboard. On Wednesday, five days after the broadcast, an anonymous phone caller reported that Eddie was hiding out in a room in a house at 3619 East 74th Street. A detective and two policemen, sent to investigate, found Eddie, fully armed, hiding under a bed. They ordered him to come out, but he decided to blast his way out. The cops shot and killed Eddie Sadowski where...
Outraged Clevelanders immediately protested to NBC's Red-network Cleveland station, WTAM, that the city's exhausted relief funds and long bread lines were not gagging matters. Bewildered, Station WTAM broadcast apologies, assured listeners that no reference to Ohio's relief headache had been intended. Residents of Beautiful Ohio needed to have it explained to them that in Broadwayese "from hunger" describes a performance so bad that it is done only because the performer must...
Before the Commission appeared President Merlin Hall Aylesworth to plead for the life of his National Broadcasting Co.'s seven stations (WRC, Washington; WEAF and WJZ, New York; KGO, San Francisco; KOA, Denver; WTAM, Cleveland; WENR, Chicago). His company had, he said, $17,000,000 in unfulfilled broadcasting contracts on hand. It had earned its first "small profit" last year on $20,000,000 gross business. It had leased 27 new studios in Manhattan's Radio City. A revocation of its licenses would ruin its business. Questioned by caustic Representative Frank R. Reid of Illinois, an intervener in the case...