Paramount Pictures

Waldorf Statement Launches Hollywood Blacklist, Studio Executives Pledge to Fire Hollywood Ten

1947-11-25 00:00:00 +0000 UTC | Importance: 9/10

Eric Johnston, president of the Motion Picture Association of America, issues the two-page Waldorf Statement on November 25, 1947, following a closed-door meeting by forty-eight motion picture company executives at New York City’s Waldorf-Astoria Hotel on November 24, 1947. The statement is …

Motion Picture Association of America Eric Johnston Louis B. Mayer Eddie Mannix Harry Cohn +16 more hollywood-blacklist mccarthyism red-scare corporate-complicity first-amendment +1 more

CBS Founded as Radio Broadcasting Oligopoly Takes Shape

1927-09-18 00:00:00 +0000 UTC | Importance: 7/10

The Columbia Phonograph Broadcasting System (later CBS) is founded in New York, initially as a network of 16 radio stations, just months after the Radio Act of 1927 establishes federal licensing. William Paley’s family purchases controlling interest in 1928 for $400,000, and Paley transforms …

William Paley Columbia Phonograph Company Arthur Judson Paramount Pictures media-consolidation institutional-capture broadcasting corporate-consolidation