Variety (Jul 1945)

Page scan 000196 from Variety

Record Details:

Title:
Variety
Date:
Jul 1945
Publisher:
New York, NY: Variety Publishing Company
Volume:
Variety (July 1945)
Leaf #:
000196
Language:
English
Subjects:
Motion Pictures, Film Industry Trade Magazine",Vaudeville,Theatr
Collection:
Hollywood Studio System, Early Cinema, and Theatre and Vaudeville
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Media History Digital Library, Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Founded in 1905 by Sime Silverman, Variety is the best known and most important trade paper in the history of American entertainment. Variety began as a New York weekly publication covering vaudeville, however, its scope expanded over time to include legitimate theatre, burlesque, motion pictures, radio, and television (transitions that the MHDL will eventually document within this record). In 1933, Daily Variety was launched in Los Angeles to offer in-depth coverage of the motion picture industry and serve as a competitor to The Hollywood Reporter, which was founded 'on the Coast' in 1930. In March 2013, Variety's owner ended the print edition of Daily Variety, though as of this writing, the weekly publication and a website offering non-stop news updates still exist. Variety may ultimately be best remembered for its integration of show business slang into entertainment trade coverage. Boffo. Hokum. Quickies. Svelte. Climaxer. Tenpercenter. Coastlander. Skein. We're still feeling zowied. -- Eric Hoyt, 2013
Date Added:
August 29, 2022
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WcJncsday. July 25« 1945 'LEADERSHIP! A few weeks ago several luindred executives of America's leading advertisers and advertising agencies passed, expert, critical and detached judgment on 112 promo- tional exliibits submitted by U.S. and Canadian radio stations to T/ie Billboards Eighth Annual Station Promotion Competition. Then they cast their ballots. Tlietj gave 16 awards to 12 statiom of the Columbia Broadcasting System. They gave 10 awards to 6 stations of Network B. ' They gave 7 awards to 7 stations of Network C. ^ " ' They gave 6 awards to 4 stations of Network D. They gave 4 awards to 4 non-network stations. They gave 2 awards to 2 stations of the Canadian Broadcasting Company. This is the 7th station competition since the beginriing of 1943 in which statims cf the CBS network Imve given unassailable evidence of striking leadership. The score speaks for itself. It confirms the faith which these same advertisers and agencies have consistency maintained in the energy and enterprise of this network. And it demonsfeKrt^s-onee more that leadership is not an accident. To both its afiiliated and its owned member stations, Columbia offers its heait- felt congratulations for achieving this conspicuous recognition of their promotional efforts.^* To The Billboard and its competent and comprehensive jury goes om* deep appre- dation for their discerning judgment. This is CBS... The Columbia Broadcasting System