Word: cbs
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Correspondent Edmond Taylor of CBS, upon his return from Italy last week, said that Balbo was shot down while flying a party of friends on a sightseeing trip over Tobruch, just as Italy announced officially. But Italy's suppression of the bad news for two days or so gave the British a chance to say, truthfully, that no R. A. F. planes operated over Tobruch that later day, thus casting sinister mystery over Balbo's death...
...Delaware), to attract recruits to its growing ranks. Beginning with spot announcements that pointed out the advantages of joining early, the Army blossomed out six weeks ago with a regular program on Manhattan's WMCA. This week the Army's first network show will be offered by CBS to all its stations...
Patterned after the WMCA original, the CBS-Army program will pipe music by the U. S. Military Academy Band from West Point, stress the opportunities of advancement the Army offers. Interviewed by veteran Radio Actor Ray Perkins, a major in the reserve corps, new recruits will explain why they enlisted; old-timers will describe their happy lot; mess sergeants will dwell on the tastiness of Army fare; Army wives will rejoice about life among the soldiers. Adding dignity to the show will be many an Army bigwig like Lieut. General Hugh Aloysius Drum, Commanding General of the First Army...
...list of network "plugs." We Could Make Such Beautiful Music and Here In the Velvet Night were each played more than ten times, but by house orchestras rather than popular bands. Variety reported that music publishers affiliated with ASCAP planned to complain to the Federal Communications Commission that CBS was discriminating in favor of B. M. I. songs, breaking its rule against repeating any number within two hours...
...union musicians on the radio are paid by networks or sponsors. But many of Boss Petrillo's men play without extra pay in the dance bands picked up, usually after 11 p.m., in hotels and nightclubs, and fed to the networks as "remotes." Last week, after NBC and CBS refused to deprive KSTP and WRVA of these remotes, Boss Petrillo instructed dance bands not to make such broadcasts. MBS came under the ban when it helpfully piped its remotes to the other networks...