Word: cbs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...vice chairman of the board) is Paul Kesten, who looked after CBS while Paley was overseas. But Kesten is on leave because of ill health, so the second biggest wig is now worn by Dr. Frank Stanton, 38-year-old former psychology professor, and new CBS president...
Stanton's ten vice presidents (average age, 45) agree with him and Paley that CBS must concentrate on news, drama, public service programs and music to offset NBC's stranglehold on comedy. Last week, two new V.P.s-39-year-old Davidson Taylor and 41-year-old Edward R. Murrow-took over programming completely after Vice President Douglas Coulter "resigned...
JOURNALISM: CBS's Paul White, for building a "preeminent" reportorial team; Des Moines' KRNT, for recording "the only on-the-scene broadcast of the atomic bomb on trial...
...given him the answer to the question: "What has happened to the soul of Britain?" He hated to leave, and England hated to see him go. The Morning Telegraph called him America's "unofficial ambassador." The Manchester Guardian hoped England had not heard the last of him. CBS was afraid it had. In his new job as CBS vice president in charge of correspondents, Ed Murrow will confine his voice to the conference room...
...many soap operas glut the daytime hours. The two largest networks, NBC and CBS, carry some 40 between them. Once, in 1940, 55 of the 59½ daytime hours a week were filled with twittering throbbers. Polling U.S. homes, FCC found that during soap-opera hours 76.8% of available listeners had their sets turned...