Word: broadcaster
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Finland last week hinted that it was ready to call it quits against Russia, cease being an unofficial Axis ally. Feelers in the Stockholm Dagens Nyheter and the Finnish press were followed by an official Finnish radio broadcast of newspaper editorials. The gist...
...advertising. But this month a series of British-style documentaries went out to more than 300 radio stations which use the Thesaurus Service of NBC's Radio-Recording Division. The best of the series, Commandos, proved that a canned program can be just as hot as one broadcast "live...
...sudden emergence as one of radio's high-priced newsmen is a triumph for corn. His reports from Washington for NBC have always sounded as if they were delivered from a cracker barrel near the stove in the general store. He used to end a local broadcast with a "God bless you one and all." Once, he omitted the tag line and received ten indignant letters from as many old ladies. Washington newsmen believe that it was Henry Ford himself who picked Godwin's raspy drawl to supplant William J. Cameron (TIME, Feb. 2) as the Voice...
...Godwin will receive $200 a broadcast. For the first month he will work seven days a week, after that five days. He broke into radio in 1935 when the Washington Times gave him $10 a week extra to broadcast its news program. Three years later he found a $100-a-week sponsor, Thompson's Dairy, but was expected to kick back 40% of his check to the paper. Godwin asked the dairy to make out two checks, one for $60 and one for $40. "Then I thought it was unfair for Cissie [Patterson] to take my money...
Both sentimental and pennywise, Punkinhead is keeping his $100-a-week morning broadcast as well as his new $200-a-day Ford contract. Ford doesn't expect him to turn back $40 a week...