Word: cbs
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Einstein theory is cuckoo? Or do you have an idea that will revolutionize anything? Thus last February Los Angeles station KNX announced the advent of What's On Your Mind?, the ultima Thule in audience-participation shows. Since that time the program has spread itself over a CBS Pacific network, more than doubled West Coast sales for its sponsor, Planters Nut & Chocolate Co. Last week it was well ahead of regional rivals, rated more popular on the Coast than such national favorites as Kay Kyser and Information Please...
...great principles to learn is that radio competes with the 25,000 distractions of the home." The CBS dramatist pointed out that it was necessary to recapture the attention of the audience periodically by changes in the movement of the play...
...Midwestern, isolationist audience he said: "We do not want to send our boys over there again, and we do not intend to. If you elect me President, we will not. ... I believe if you elect the third-term candidate they will be sent." He finished. CBS Announcer John Charles Daly drew his fingers across his throat, traditional signal that allotted radio time was up. People began to get up, still applauding. Willkie began to speak again, extemporaneously, lifted his audience as he had not lifted them before...
Last week for the first time in six months CBS's short-wave listening post picked up a newscast aired by the celebrated German Freiheitsender-the secret "Freedom Station" the Nazis have repeatedly tried to suppress. Giving no location, announcing simply that his program was "Germany Speaking," the Freiheitsender commentator, who may have been speaking from Switzerland, mocked Göring on the failure of his second four-year plan, which ended last week, contended Hitler had overrun Austria, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Denmark, Norway, the Low Countries and France because ersatz food and gasoline had failed him, declared the only...
...August CBS made front