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Television would provide NBC with new realms to conquer. The company was an early adopter: it launched some of the first experimental transmissions from the antenna atop the Empire State Building in 1931, and it started regular broadcasts in New York City in 1939, debuting in time for the opening of the World's Fair. The company minted the first TV star in comedian Milton Berle, whose Texaco Star Theater became a hit in 1948 - the same year that the number of televisions in America crossed the 1 million mark. NBC started broadcasting in color in 1954; its famed peacock...
...Great Recession has also exposed our magical thinking about what constitutes a middle-class lifestyle. Flash back a generation to the house with the white picket fence. It had a black-and-white TV with an antenna, a car in the garage, a chicken in every pot and two kinds of lettuce (light green and dark green). Now the average house is more than 50% bigger, the car is twice as powerful (and there's often more than one), the TV is flat and gets 900 channels, and we expect the grocery store to have strawberries year-round and about...
...mechanized companion, Rover, is a source of endearing robot humor that resonates with all audiences, despite being shamelessly borrowed from “WALL-E.” Although veering on occasion towards crudity (“That’s an odd place for his antenna,” says one character after glimpsing Chuck in the nude), the movie’s humor keeps the film from becoming mired in political commentary...
...thing we’re going to offer is a very strong record of getting tangible results for students,” said Hayward, who has earned a reputation for his work on Quad-related projects such as the installation of the AT&T service antenna earlier this year...
...recently been set up next to Cabot House’s Barnard Hall, located on the southwest corner of the Quad. The “visually obtrusive” COW serves as a temporary solution for providing reliable AT&T wireless service in the Quad until a permanent antenna is installed next fall, following city and state approval, said Zachary M. Gingo ’98, director of Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ Facilities Management and Operations. The permanent antenna will be placed on the roof of the Student Organization Center at Hilles, hidden from view. Harvard...