Word: broadcast
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Subscription Radio is a scheme for listeners to subscribe to radio programs just as they subscribe to newspapers and periodicals. For a proposed 5? a day ($18.25 a year) subscribers could tune in on three types of FM broadcasts, all without advertising: 1) continuous classical music; 2) continuous popular music; 3) news, dramatic and educational programs. A broadcast "pig squeal" would prevent nonsubscribers from listening in; a device to silence the squeal would be attached to subscribers' sets...
Adult education via radio earned some high remarks from President Conant and five other educators on a special broadcast over WHDH last night, Speaking on the anniversary of the Lowell Institute Cooperative Broadcasting Council, the President called radio "one of the most important agencies for continuing education of the population...
...immediately demonstrated a genius for bad public relations. He banned a broadcast by 160 boys & girls from the National Music Camp at Interlochen, Mich. The press reacted as though he had burned off their heads with an acetylene torch; Congress and the Justice Department jostled each other in their rush to investigate him. He plunged on, hauled the nation's big symphony orchestras into the union, and with them artists like Iturbi, Spalding and Zimbalist. "They're mine," he cried. "What's the difference between Heifetz and a fiddler in a tavern...
Fear is in a false broadcast...
...Young Republicans defended Universal Military Training, as provided for in their platform, against an HYD member and a Boston University co-ed on the Student Forum. broadcast over WHDH Thursday night...