[78-L] NBC

[David Lennick]

On 10/14/2010 12:41 PM, Sammy Jones wrote:

> Somewhat relatedly, during Orson Welles's closing speech in the War of the Worlds he says something like, "destroyed the CBS," while the scripts that I've seen write out "Columbia Broadcasting System" during this part.  The system cue at the end of the program is, of course, "Columbia Broadcasting System."
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> Sammy Jones
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And the opening as I recall is "The Columbia Broadcasting System, and its 
affiliated stations present Orson Welles and the Mercury Theatre.."

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