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TV Kidnaps Sports
Griffin, Jack R. | March 29, 1965 issue

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Television has not yet completely taken over sports-although it is calling the rules for some of them but already it has left deep scars, and the concern has become so great that a Senate committee recently took a brief look at the intertwining of sports and national television. Thomas W. Moore, president of the American Broadcasting Co., proposed that the two major baseball leagues trim their 162-game schedule to sixty games, and play these only on weekends, this drastic tampering with the national pastime being in the interests of a tidier package for national television.

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TELEVISION & sports; UNITED States. Congress. Senate; TELEVISION broadcasting of sports; MASS media; AMERICAN Broadcasting Co.; UNITED States
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