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In 1956, NBC News executives considered various possibilities to anchor the network's coverage of the Democratic and Republican political conventions, and when executive J. Davidson Taylor suggested pairing two reporters ( he had in mind Bill Henry and Ray Scherer ), producer Reuven Frank, who favored Brinkley for the job, and NBC's director of news, Joseph Meyers, who favored Chet Huntley, proposed combining Huntley and Brinkley.
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In 1956, Cotten left film for years for a string of successful television ventures, such as the NBC series On Trial ( renamed at mid-season The Joseph Cotten Show ).
** MGM's classic film The Wizard of Oz makes its NBC debut after being telecast on CBS since 1956.
The Broadway production from 1954 was subsequently performed on NBC television in RCA's compatible color in 1955, 1956 and 1960.
* A Gun for Dinosaur on X Minus One, NBC radio, 1956
One hour of the Opry was nationally-broadcast by the NBC Red Network from 1939 to 1956 ; for much of its run, it aired one hour after the program that had inspired it, National Barn Dance.
In 1956, John J. Graham created an abstraction of an eleven-feathered peacock logo for American broadcaster NBC.
It was renamed the Grand Ole Opry in 1927 and NBC carried portions from 1944 to 1956.
Still, the McGees remained a favorite presence on radio, even after the quarter-hour edition ended in 1956, appearing in short segments on the NBC radio show Monitor — under the rubric Just Molly and Me — from 1957 to 1959.
In 1956, Petrushka, directed by John David Wilson for Fine Arts Films aired as a segment of the Sol Hurok Music Hour on NBC.
The first production was staged as a live adaptation screened on 28 March 1956 by NBC TV and sponsored by Kraft Foods as part of the Kraft Television Theatre strand.
RCA-owned NBC first used it on The Jonathan Winters Show on October 23, 1956, when a pre-recorded song sequence by Dorothy Collins in color was included in the otherwise live television program.
Pardo made his mark on game shows for NBC as the booming voice of the original The Price Is Right from 1956 until it moved to ABC in 1963, then Call My Bluff.
It was not until September 1956 that NBC began using color film to time-delay and preserve some of its live color telecasts.
The first British show to be made in color was the drama series The Adventures of Sir Lancelot ( 1956 – 57 ), which was initially made in black and white but later shot in color for sale to the NBC network in the United States.
Storm's popularity was capitalized on when she served as hostess of the NBC Comedy Hour in the winter of 1956.
In September 1956, NBC began making color " hot kines " of some of its color programs using a lenticular film process which, unlike color negative film, could be processed rapidly using standard black-and-white methods.
Among his numerous television roles, Carmichael guest starred with Keenan Wynn, Anthony George, and Olive Carey in the 1956 episode " Death in the Snow " of the NBC anthology series, The Joseph Cotten Show.
* Tuesday at 8: 00 – 9: 00 pm on NBC: June 1948 – June 1956
The Huntley-Brinkley Report ( sometimes known as The Texaco Huntley-Brinkley Report, for one of its early sponsors ) was the NBC television network's flagship evening news program from October 29, 1956, until July 31, 1970.
By 1956, NBC executives had grown dissatisfied with Swayze in his role anchoring the network's evening news program, which fell behind its main competition, CBS's Douglas Edwards with the News, in 1955.
Broadcasts of Jimmy Dorsey and The Fabulous Dorsey Orchestra on NBC Bandstand survive from December 25, and December 31, 1956.
He hosted and occasionally starred in his Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theater on CBS from 1956 – 1961, and his final anthology series, The Dick Powell Show on NBC from 1961 through 1963: after his death, the series continued through the end of its second season ( as The Dick Powell Theater ), with guest hosts.
Ford subsequently helmed his own prime-time variety program, The Ford Show, which ran on NBC television from October 4, 1956, to June 29, 1961.
Ford Theatre, an anthology series, had run in the same time slot on NBC in the preceding 1955 – 1956 season.
From 1956 through 1970, he co-anchored NBC's top-rated nightly news program, The Huntley – Brinkley Report, with Chet Huntley and thereafter appeared as co-anchor or commentator on its successor, NBC Nightly News, through the 1970s.
1956 and News
* 1956 Bill Crawford ( Newark News )
A British Pathe News film of 1956 shows artist Michael Farrar-Bell at work producing inn signs.
After distributor Leader News went bankrupt in 1956, EC was left with over $ 100, 000 in unrecoverable debt.
* Steve Doocy ( born 1956 ), Fox News anchor on Fox & Friends.
CBS Television first used the Ampex VRX-1000 Mark IV at its Television City studios in Hollywood on November 30, 1956 to play a delayed broadcast of Douglas Edwards and the News from New York City to the Pacific Time Zone.
In the U. S., newsreel series included The March of Time ( 1935 – 1951 ), Pathé News ( 1910 – 1956 ), Paramount News ( 1927 – 1957 ), Fox Movietone News ( 1928 – 1963 ), Hearst Metrotone News ( 1914 – 1967 ), and Universal Newsreel ( 1929 – 1967 ).
Pathé News was distributed by RKO Radio Pictures from 1931 to 1947, and then by Warner Brothers from 1947 to 1956.
* Pathé News newsreel series produced by Pathé Film from 1910 to 1956 ( distributed by RKO Radio Pictures 1931-1947 and by Warner Brothers 1947-1956 )
* 1956: William Randolph Hearst Jr., J. Kingsbury-Smith and Frank Conniff, International News Service, " for a series of exclusive interviews with the leaders of the Soviet Union.
He replaced Camel News Caravan with the Huntley-Brinkley Report, which premiered on October 29, 1956, with Huntley in New York and Brinkley in Washington.
Geoffrey Cox joined as News Editor in 1956 after Crowley resigned, and he hired interviewers such as Robin Day.
The first magnetically recorded time-delayed television network program using the new Ampex Quadruplex recording system was CBS's Douglas Edwards and the News on November 30, 1956.
CBS goes on air with the first videotape delayed broadcast, Douglas Edwards and The News, on November 30, 1956, from Los Angeles, California, using the Ampex Mark IV.
* Charles Collingwood with the News ( 1956, 1961 – 62 )
* Walter Cronkite with the News ( 1956 – 1960 )
* CBS Sunday News ( Eric Sevareid ) ( 1956 )
* The Three Outlaws, starring Neville Brand as Butch Cassidy and Alan Hale Jr as the Sundance Kid, is a 1956 fictional film of the duo's exploits with Wild Bunch member William " News " Carver as the third outlaw in the title.
* Robert B. Smith ( Virginia ), mayor of Newport News, Virginia, 1956 – 1958
However, a 1956 article from the Chicago Daily News asserts that Uno's original pizza chef Rudy Malnati developed the recipe.
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