Landau v. Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc.

This is a libel action. At 10:30 p.m. on February-28, 1952, the television audience of New York City and its environs, and simultaneously, other viewers in sixteen cities across the country from Boston and Baltimore to Hollywood and San Francisco, could, if so inclined, see and hear a half-hour presentation of one of a weekly series of programs known as “ Crime Photographer ”. At later times, by kinescope, the same play was presented from twenty-five additional stations. The number of people who saw this program, televised as it was on a major network, cannot be accurately estimated. Since…