Word: programming
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...second ... die earlier than those of the first." Drs. Allen & Adson admitted that "there is no very good medical treatment for hypertension," that droves of patients run to "physician after physician seeking relief, and . . . large numbers of physicians do likewise. . . . Almost all products so enthusiastically advertised are valueless. A program of adequate rest and recreation, avoidance ... of nervous stresses and strains, the acquisition of a calm peaceful attitude, the use of sedatives, the maintenance of normal weight and the judicious use of drugs ... is as good as any." Hypertension is a disease of the arterial system. The heart pumps blood...
...most people, Arthur Honegger is the great locomotive man of music. He wrote Pacific 231, a huffing, whooshing, lickety-split program piece which has snorted down countless orchestral tracks in the past 16 years. "I love locomotives," says Composer Honegger, "the way other men love women or animals." A solid, massive-browed, bob-haired man, Honegger rode a New Haven locomotive, clad in beret and white overalls, on his last U. S. visit in 1929. Most of the time he lives in Paris. There Honegger shares a home not with a locomotive but a wife, Pianist Andree Vaurabourg. No Johnny...
Clothed under early New Deal blanket legislation with mighty authority over the air, FCC announced that limited commercial telecasting could begin on Sept. 1 -i. e., that advertising sponsors could pay program production costs, leave telecasters out of pocket only for their air time and technological expense...
Natural but catastrophic was RCA's next step: a full-page advertisement in Manhattan newspapers announcing regular program service, advertising its highest-priced home receiver ($395). Two days later the blow struck: an FCC order summarily suspending its permission for commercial telecasting. Its reason: "television promotional activities" by RCA. Television sets should not be foisted on a large public, FCC implied, until there has been more improvement in the quality of transmission. This week, FCC begins further hearings "to determine whether ... the achievement of higher standards for television transmission are being unduly retarded by ... the Radio Corporation of America...
Annapolis-Man Fly took time on the Mutual chain, later decided to broadcast at the same time on NBC's Red network (owned by RCA). Wryly RCA canceled Molle Shaving Cream's Tuesday night "Battle of the Sexes" program to let its listeners hear what...