NBC now televises an average of 28 hours a week, and about 23 of them have the same announcer. Robert S. (for nothing) Stanton's busy schedule includes all Giant baseball games at the Polo Grounds, two evenings a week of prize fights, a studio show (U.S. Rubber's corny Campus Hoopla) and nearly all of NBC's "remotes" (out-of-studio telecasts), such as the U.N. Palestine hearings.
Sports are Bob Stanton's specialty, and sports thus far are television's biggest attraction. Once, back in 1932, he had a brief fling at singing in a band (his onetime lyric tenor has now become...
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