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Louis G. Cowan (December 12, 1909 – November 18, 1976 [1]) was a president of the CBS broadcasting network in the United States and a creator of quiz shows (including Quiz Kids radio program, Stop the Music, and The $64,000 Question for television), a television producer [1] [2] and was director of the Voice of America from 1943–1945.
Jul 16, 2018 · Louis G. Cowan began his career at the Overseas Branch of the Office of War Information as an Army office liaison. His experiences in wartime radio led him to run overseas programing at the Radio Program Bureau. Towards the end of World War II, Cowan was appointed by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt as the second director of Voice of America.
In the early months of World War II, radio producer Louis G. Cowan was faced with a problem. Not long before the bombing of Pearl Harbor in December of 1941, Cowan had joined the radio arm of the War Department's Special Services division, where his primary duties had been to produce radio-based propaganda for civilian audiences.
Louis G. Cowan, American public company executive, communications executive. Member Council on Foreign Relations, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Zeta Beta Tau.
Alfred Schneider on working as Executive Assistant to the President of CBS, Louis G. Cowan
Nov 19, 1976 · Louis G. Cowan. former president of the. CBS television network, and his wife,’ Pauline, were killed yesterday in a fire that swept through their apartment in the Westbury Hotel. Mr. Cowan was a...
Louis G. Cowan is known for Cosmopolitan Theatre (1951), The Bert Parks Show (1950) and Fearless Fosdick (1952).
