The television station uses the ominous WKYL (kill) as its call letters, and the name of the town is "Terminal City".
Chuckles the bartender (William Conrad) says the projection television (which actually didn't exist at the time of the film) cost him $1,400 - an amount which equates to about $17,500 in 2023.
The newspaper editor's secretary, who makes only a brief appearance and has two or three short, expertly delivered lines, is Barbara Billingsley, later to become a television icon as the mother of Beaver Cleaver on Leave It to Beaver (1957).
This film failed at the box office, resulting in a loss to MGM of $148,000 according to studio records.