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	Texaco Star Theater - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Texaco Star Theater, a comedy-variety show (radio, 1940-48; television, 1948-56), was one of the first hugely successful examples of U.S. television broadcasting.
		Texaco Star Theater was actually born on radio almost a decade before Uncle Miltie rode it to television legend.
		Texaco Star Theater was also the highest rated television show of the 1950-1951 television season, the first season in which the Nielsen Ratings were used.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Texaco_Star_Theater (1119 words)

	Terrific Collectibles From Texaco (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Today the Texaco trucks produced by Buddy L and the Fire Chief hats complete with microphone and speaker rank high among the legendary toys of the 1960s.
		Texaco began as the Texas Fuel Company in the early 1900s and by the 1920s had grown to become one of the significant producers of gasoline and related products for American motorists.
		In those pioneering days four uniformed Texaco service men always opened the show with their singing of the Men of Texaco jingle, and most of the rest of the show was carried by comic Milton Berle (Uncle Miltie) and special guests.
	www.antiquelynx.com /Articles/TexacoRR.htm (1079 words)

	Milton Berle - MSN Encarta
		NBC had planned to use a rotation of hosts on Texaco Star Theater, but Berle was such an instant success that he became the sole host.
		Texaco dropped its sponsorship in 1953 and the show was canceled in 1956.
		Berle won Emmy Awards in 1949 (for Texaco Star Theater) and 1979 (a special award for Berle's contribution to television).
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761584504/Berle_Milton.html (485 words)

	The Motley Fool: Drip Portfolio Report
		In the years that followed, Texaco was a leader at marketing its brandname, which became one of the first well-recognized national brands of gasoline.
		Given the $964 million in after-tax operating income recently reported by Texaco in its 1998 earnings statement, Spanky divides that number by the sum of the $11.8 billion in shareholders' equity and $7.3 billion in total debt also listed by the company and finds an ROCE figure of 5%.
		Texaco will have a difficult time finding the cost-savings to keep up with the super-majors in the years ahead, and it will continue to be one of the least profitable integrated firms so long as oil prices remain at their current low levels of around $12 per barrel.
	www.fool.com /DRIPPort/1999/DRIPPort990303.htm (1278 words)

	Milton Berle Summary
		Every place I ever appeared--whether it was vaudeville, theaters, nightclubs or TV--she was in the audience being a one-woman flack for me." In fact, her loud laugh and applause at strategic points in the act became part of the act itself.
		His last radio series was The Texaco Star Theater, which began September 22, 1948 on ABC and continued until June 15, 1949, with Berle heading the cast of Stang, Kelton and Gallop, along with Charles Irving, Kay Armen and double-talk specialist Al Kelly.
		Berle and Texaco owned Tuesday nights for the next several years, reaching the number one slot in the Nielsen ratings and keeping it, with as much as an 80% share of the recorded viewing audience.
	www.bookrags.com /Milton_Berle (5932 words)

	Milton Berle - Free net encyclopedia
		Theaters, restaurants, and other businesses either closed completely or simply shut down for the hour so their customers wouldn't miss Berle's antics.
		One of his most popular performances in his later years is guest starring in The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, as the womanizing, joke-making patient who leads Will to thought he died because the patient slept right away.
		Berle threatened to quit and leave Texaco and television without their star unless a fl vaudeville dance act was allowed to appear as scheduled.
	www.netipedia.com /index.php/Milton_Berle (2307 words)

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		It was as a vaudeville star that Berle, in the 1920s and early 1930s, began to develop the jokes, songs and comedy routines that were to serve him so well 20 years later on television.
		In 1948, Berle signed to do a radio show--"Texaco Star Theater." It quickly spawned a television offshoot--and the first big hit for a medium that, thanks to Berle, would never be looked at the same.
		The first "Texaco Star Theater" television broadcast went out live from New York City--on Sept. 21, 1948--from Studio 6B in the RCA building in Rockefeller Center.
	www.1966batfan.com /louie.htm (3395 words)

	Texaco's History - Advertising
		In 1938, Texaco became the first company to advertise the cleanliness of our service station rest rooms.
		We also enlisted the personalities on Texaco-sponsored radio and television shows to advertise our products and services, beginning with the first live radio broadcast in 1932 when comedian Ed Wynn wore a fire chief’s hat to introduce our new Fire Chief Gasoline and continuing with legendary entertainers such as Jack Benny and Bob Hope.
		Texaco's "A cleaner source of energy is coming down the pipe"
	www.texaco.com /sitelets/history/history_ad.html (318 words)

	Milton Berle's grave (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		In 1948, NBC decided to bring Texaco Star Theater from radio to television, with Berle as one of the show's four rotating hosts.
		It turned out that everyone waited until the end of the Texaco Star Theater before going to the bathroom." Berle is credited for the huge spike in the sale of TV sets during the medium's early years.
		One of his most popular performances in his later years was guest starring in 1993 in The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air as a womanizing, joke-making patient who leads Will to think that he died because the patient fell asleep right away.
	www.hollywoodusa.co.uk /HillsideObituaries/miltonberle.htm (2836 words)

	NPR : Archives Help Businesses Learn from Mistakes
		The Texaco Star Theater was a Tuesday night TV staple from 1948 to 1954.
		Berle's show was one of the most popular on TV at the time and Texaco reaped the rewards.
		But in 2001, Texaco merged with the Chevron Corporation in California -- and the archives of both century-old companies were combined.
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	TIME.com: From Spindletop to Saudi Arabia -- Apr. 20, 1987 -- Page 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		In the 1950s, at the peak of its financial might, Texaco was the most profitable oil company in the U.S. and one of the best known.
		In 1940 Texaco's reputation was tarnished when its chairman was forced to resign after a company representative in Germany was found to be a Nazi spy who had obtained a valuable report on the U.S. aircraft industry prepared by Texaco economists.
		Texaco is today seen as arrogant in its dealings with competitors, suppliers and its own station operators, some of whom have secretly enjoyed its discomfort in the Pennzoil crisis.
	www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,964059,00.html (705 words)

	Milton Berle Biography (Comedian) — FactMonster.com
		Milton Berle was the first great superstar of the TV age, the undisputed king of the medium in the early 1950s.
		His variety show Texaco Star Theater (later The Milton Berle Show) ran from 1948-56, with ringleader Berle often wearing women's gowns and other outrageous costumes; his popularity earned him the nicknames "Mr.
		Texaco Star Theater in 1949, and again in 1978 for lifetime achievement...
	www.factmonster.com /biography/var/miltonberle.html (280 words)

	Milton Berle
		Berle is best known for his role as host of Texaco Star Theater, television's most popular program during its early years.
		Although the budget for each program was a modest $15,000, many well-known entertainers were eager to appear for the public exposure Texaco Star Theater afforded, providing further viewer appeal and popularity for the program.
		The next year, a new Milton Berle Show was produced in California for the 1955-56 season, but it failed to capture either the spirit or the audience of Uncle Miltie in his prime.
	www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/biography/Berle.html (911 words)

	Star Cinema
		Eventually, The Stayton Theatre was moved to the Hall and a Mill City man renamed it Star Theatre.
		But when vaudeville gave way to cinematic features, many youngsters for years to come were all too happy to pack the theater and spend their cash on popcorn and Milk Duds.
		The original Star Theatre was torn down within a year and a Scio Banker built a bank in its place.
	www.wvi.com /~starcinema/history.htm (1048 words)

	Star Theater (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The Star Theatre at the Spokane Arena was created due to the demand for a smaller, more intimate concert space within the Spokane area.
		Star Theatres is proud to present this unique venue in Southfield. The Star Southfield is the most...
		Star Theatres is proud to present this unique venue in Southfield.
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	washingtonpost.com: Milton Berle, 'Mr. Television,' Dies at 93
		In 1948, Berle took a chance on television as the host of "The Texaco Star Theater," a comedy-variety program that aired on NBC on Tuesday nights at 8.
		When "The Texaco Star Theater" began its first full season on Sept. 21, 1948, there were about 400,000 television sets in the United States.
		In June 1948, he was asked to try out as the host of a new show, "The Texaco Star Theater," which was scheduled to begin its regular season that September.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A28744-2002Mar27?language=printer (1404 words)

	CNN.com - 'Mr. Television,' Milton Berle, dead at 93 - March 28, 2002
		Berle was not supposed to be the permanent host of "Texaco Star Theater." The emcees, which included Henny Youngman, Morey Amsterdam, and Jack Carter, were supposed to rotate.
		But, as Tim Brooks and Earle Marsh note in their compendium of television history, "The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows 1946-present" (Ballantine), Berle proved the most popular host and was made permanent in September 1948, three months after the show debuted.
		The show changed its name in 1953 after Texaco changed its sponsorship to another night, and the show was finally renamed "The Milton Berle Show" in 1954.
	edition.cnn.com /2002/SHOWBIZ/News/03/27/milton.berle.obit (1061 words)

	Texaco: About Texaco
		Texaco has been operating in the United States for more than 100 years.
		From the humble beginnings of maverick pioneers in Beaumont, Texas, the Texaco brand grown into one of the most trusted and familiar brands in the world.
		Texaco products are sold in all 50 states, plus the District of Columbia.
	www.texaco.com /aboutus/what/docs/deepstar.html (255 words)

	Milton Berle Obituary
		He was adored by millions as “Uncle Miltie” on “Texaco Star Theater” and may have been the most famous media personality of his era.
		With a beaming, Cheshire Cat-like grin, withering stare, cigar (and a notorious reputation for stealing jokes), Berle riveted viewers at the dawn of the television age.
		Texaco Star Theater was built like an old-fashioned vaudeville show, the original program opened with four Texaco Service Men singing “Oh, we’re the men of Texaco, we work from Maine to Mexico...,” followed by a musical introduction of Berle, who came on dressed in women’s clothes or in some other outlandish costume.
	timstvshowcase.com /obit_miltonberle.html (866 words)

	Just Small Wonders
		On April 26, 1931, Ed Wynn made his first appearance as Texaco's "Fire Chief" before a live radio audience; as the spring advertising campaign, "Listen", featuring the Texaco Scotty dogs ended on April 30th.
		All of texaco's ocean-going tankers were used in the war effort.
		A total of 5,855 Texaco employees served in the U.S. Armed Forces.
	members.aol.com /texaco4me (367 words)

	Texaco Star Theater OTR MP3 List (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Texaco Star Theater is a personality filled Hollywood variety show with and all-star cast of vocalists, hosts, comedians, and guests.
		Texaco was a major sponsor of many successful personality-based variety radio shows including The Fred Allen Show, Eddie Cantor, Jimmy Durante, Ed Wynn and lastly Milton Berle.
		Originally show was first opened with a wailing siren until the attacks on Pearl Harbor when the sound of sirens reminded audiences of air raids.
	www.otrcat.com /texacostartheater.htm (256 words)

	Texaco Star Theater / The Milton Berle Show
		The THIRD was "Milton Berle Starring in The Kraft Music Hall" (NBC, 1958-59), which see...and The FOURTH series was "The Milton Berle Show" (ABC, 1966-67) which got slaughtered in the ratings by The Man From U.N.C.L.E.]
		Open Theme 1: "We Are The Men of Texaco"
		New Main Theme 5: "Star Theater (Op/Cl Theme)"
	www.classicthemes.com /50sTVThemes/themePages/texacoStarTheater.html (266 words)

	Hillside Cemetery - part 3: Stars' Graves (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		There were fewer than 150,000 sets in use in America when Milton brought his "Texaco Star Theater" variety show to the air in 1948.
		She wrote of real-life romances with such Hollywood stars as Clark Gable, Burt Lancaster, Marlon Brando, William Holden and Errol Flynn.
		Walk up the ramp towards the Star of David, and the grave of Friz Freleng will be on your left side, on the wall just around the corner from the statue.
	www.seeing-stars.com /buried2/Hillside3.shtml (2044 words)

	Texaco Star Theater TV Show Cast Members And Episodes List
		The Texaco Star Theater was a variety, comedy series in the grand old tradition of vaudeville as were many of television's earliest programs.
		The Texaco Star Theater was so immensely popular that NBC refused to cancel the episode on November 2, 1948 for the election coverage!
		Milton Berle won an Emmy in 1950 for Most Outstanding Kinescope Personality and was nominated for another in 1995 for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series for an appearance on "Beverly Hills, 90210 (1990)".
	www.crazyabouttv.com /texacostartheater.html (1097 words)

	Texaco Star Theater TV Show - Texaco Star Theater Television Show - TV.com
		These qualities all converged on June 8, 1948 when television's first hit series and superstar were born: Milton Berle starring in Texaco Star Theater.
		When the series began, there was little else on the TV landscape: an occasional cooking show, a low budget talent show, a newsreel or two, but nothing compelling.
		Tell the world what you think of Texaco Star Theater, write a review for this show.
	www.tv.com /texaco-star-theater/show/17812/summary.html (227 words)

	Worldandnation: Uncle Miltie
		At 8 p.m., four Texaco service attendants sang the 'Texaco Star Theater' theme, and then came Berle, dressed for laughs: a caveman introduced as 'the man with jokes from the Stone Age'; a man in a barrel 'who had just paid his taxes.'
		Berle was signed as host of the first show of a variety series -- the 'Texaco Star Theater.' He was supposed to alternate with several other hosts, including Henny Youngman and Morey Amsterdam, but Berle drew so much fan mail that NBC soon gave him the spot permanently.
		Berle's hour-long 'Texaco Star Theater' began June 8, 1948, and was renamed 'The Milton Berle Show' before it ended in June 1956.
	www.sptimes.com /2002/03/28/Worldandnation/Uncle_Miltie.shtml (1312 words)

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		Milton Berle makes his TV debut in September as the master of ceremonies on "The Texaco Star Theater," which runs until 1956.
		Berle was signed as host of the first show of a variety series — the "Texaco Star Theater." He was supposed to alternate with several other hosts, including Henny Youngman and Morey Amsterdam, but Berle drew so much fan mail that NBC soon gave him the spot permanently.
		In the early days of television dating back to the 1940s, advertisers produced shows such as Texaco Star Theater, in which singing gas station attendants introduced host Milton Berle every week.
	www.lycos.com /info/milton-berle--texaco-star-theater.html (188 words)

	Milton Berle, 1908-2002: 'Mister Television' to Millions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Yet, Berle did not become truly famous until he appeared on the “Texaco Star Theater” television program in June, nineteen forty-eight.
		The “Texaco Star Theater” opened with four men who looked like gasoline station employees.
		Yet many of the best-known performers in the United States appeared on the “Texaco Star Theater.” Like any vaudeville show, his program also offered a mix of singers, dancers and animal acts.
	www.voanews.com /specialenglish/archive/2006-09/2006-09-09-voa2.cfm (1387 words)

	Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Texaco Star Theater - Texaco Town Follies (1936)
		Texaco oil sponsored many successful radio shows (The Fred Allen Show, Eddie Cantor, Jimmy Durante, Ed Wynn & Milton Berle).
		Originally the show opened with a wailing siren, but after the attacks on Pearl Harbor, this was changed fearing it would alarm many americans.
	boxcars711.podomatic.com /entry/2006-07-21T15_23_05-07_00 (87 words)

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