Word: wwj-tv
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...television as an ideal teaching medium-a chance for professors to bring their charts and blackboards directly into the nation's living rooms. Last week the University of Michigan announced that it had decided to try it. Michigan will start weekly Sunday afternoon telecasts on Detroit's WWJ-TV next fall, hopes to interest 1,000,000 stay-at-home students in the Detroit area...
...year, the number of television sponsors had soared from 680 to 2,316, boasted Du Mont's TV network General Manager Chris Whitting. Said he: "Our network tripled its billing in 1949, grossing in excess of $3,000,000." Beefy Harry Bannister, general manager of Detroit's WWJ-TV, saw nothing ahead but a golden future: "I don't think it matters what kind of program the sponsor has. They all sell the product...