Broadcasting Telecasting (Oct-Dec 1956)
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Dear Betty and Sol:
Twenty five years is a quarter of a century. That long ago you gambled on broadcasting as an industry and started BroadcastingTelecasting.
Thirty-one years ago WSOY, over the license signature of Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover, became known in Central Illinois.
The years have been kind to both of us. I hope we have deserved it . . . and I think we have.
Let ' s hope that the next quarter of a century will be equally as fruitful and satisfying for us, for our customers, for our associates.
Affectionately,
emi
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(American Tobacco Co.) it had on NBC; Edgar Bergen deal awaiting Internal Revenue Dept. ruling; Phil Harris-Alice Faye show to remain on NBC for time being. Nov. 29: Bulova Watch Co. introduces plan for combining time signals with tv station identification announcements; 1949 advertising budget includes $500,000 for tv, $3 million for radio.
Nov. 29: Negotiations are in progress for sale of ABC to 20th Century-Fox.
Nov. 29: U.S. Court of Appeals for District of Columbia reverses FCC on denial of license renewal to WORL Boston; calls action arbitrary, capricious and without "substantial" evidence.
Dec. 6: Frank M. Folsom, executive vice president in charge of Victor Div., becomes president of RCA, succeeding Brig. Gen. David Sarnoff, who retains board chairmanship.
Dec. 6: Verdi's "Otello" is telecast in full from stage of Metropolitan Opera House in New York on ABC-TV with Texas Co. as sponsor.
Dec. 13: Justice Dept. investigates practices of major and minor leagues with regard to broadcasts.
Dec. 13: Fort Industry Co. files bid for WHAS Louisville matching that of Crosley Corp.
Dec. 20: Recording peace near as Labor Secretary Maurice Tobin and Attorney General Tom Clark approve "trust fund" plan as within Taft-Hartley Act; Samuel R. Rosenbaum, one-time president of WFIL Philadelphia, is chosen as impartial trustee and administrator of the fund.
Congratu tatians
and
best wishes* Sal
United Broadcasting Company
WOOK WSID WJMO WARK-CBS
WANT WOOK-TV
WINX WACH-TV
WYOU WTLF (TV) WFAN-FM
WORLD NEWS SERVICE
Dec. 20: Bob Hope also files for WHAS Louisville under competitive bidding rule. Dec. 27: Transcription companies sign fiveyear agreements with AFM.
1949
Jan. 3: Affirming FCC's denial of application of Bay State Beacon Inc. for Brockton, Mass., station which would offer 95% of its time for sale, Court of Appeals of District of Columbia rules Commission has right to examine percentages of commercial and sustaining time proposed by applicant. Jan. 10: Daytime Stratovision tests deliver good pictures to some areas but in others local station interference mars reception. Jan. 10: With Jack Benny and Amos 'ri Andy in its Sunday night lineup, CBS now tops NBC ratingwise in the critical 7-8 p.m. period.
Jan. 10: Resisting FCC order to move all fm to 88-108 mc, fm inventor E. H. Armstrong wins stay order from U.S. Court of Appeals for District of Columbia permitting his experimental station, W2XMN Alpine, N. J., to continue operating on 44.1 mc pending a hearing.
Jan. 10: Admiral Corp. will sponsor hourlong musical revue series, Friday Night Frolic, on combined NBC and DuMont tv networks, starring Sid Caesar, Imogene Coca and the Gower and Marge Champion dance team.
Jan. 17: John Churchill resigns as BMB research director; NAB lends its director of research, Dr. Kenneth H. Baker, to supervise BMB's second nationwide study of station and network audiences. Jan. 17: Liggett & Myers contracts for baseball telecasts also include exclusive right to in-park advertising, so that camera in covering games will have only Chesterfield ads in background.
Jan. 17: AT&T coaxial cable links east coast and midwest tv stations; 90-minute dedicatory telecast is far from great. Jan. 24: CBS gets services of Bing Crosby for both radio and tv.
Jan. 31: Baltimore court finds three stations guilty of contempt for violating court's rule prohibiting publication of crime news, fines WITH $500 and costs, James P. Connolly, WITH commentator, $100 and costs, WFBR $300 and costs, WCBM $300 and costs; WISD, in suburban Essex, found not guilty in absence of proof its broadcasts were heard in city.
Jan. 31: CBS signs Edgar Bergen and Red Skelton; other deals reported near to signing stage.
Jan. 31: Academy of Television Arts & Sciences presents first Emmy awards; KTSL Los Angeles telecasts ceremonies. Jan. 31: KMED Medford, Ore., tells FCC its sale to Gibson Broadcasting is off and all because of Commission's competitive bidding rule.
Feb. 7: Appellate Div. of New York Supreme Court sets aside award of $490,419 to Donald Flamm, former owner of WMCA New York, in suit against Edward J. Noble, ABC board chairman, to whom Mr. Flamm sold WMCA in 1941.
Feb. 7: Pennsylvania State Board of Censors of Motion Pictures orders censorship of tv films before they are telecast by any Pennsylvania station.
Feb. 14: NBC rescinds rule against use of transcriptions on network.
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