Word: broadcast
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...broadcast schedule, in Eastern Standard Time, over NBC's network: Thursday, 11:30-12 p.m.; Friday, 10:45-11 p.m.; 11:30-12 p.m.; Saturday, 12:30-1 p.m.; 2:15-2:30 p.m.; 2:45-3 p.m.; 7:00-7:30 p.m. Additional programs are planned. See your local newspapers for stations carrying these programs...
...this one memorable broadcast, television proved that its window on history was almost as clear as the newsreel's, and far closer in time. Telecasters bragged that they would soon be opening their window on bigger & better sights; RCA President David Sarnoff announced that the 1948 presidential campaign would be televised. But unless television got a move on, few in the U.S. would see a political or any other kind of telecast...
Though there are nine television stations operating on regular schedules (in New York, Philadelphia, Washington, Schenectady, Chicago, Los Angeles), they broadcast, on an average, only 20 hours a week, and only the telecasts of sporting events have attained passing skill. There are only 12,000 sets in U.S. homes, 13,000 fewer than in Britain. And the road to full set production has been blocked first by material shortages and of late by "the color controversy...
...ever-cautious BBC did not want to make an issue of it. Last week, in a move to appease parents and children alike, it offered a compromise: 1) Dick's adventures would continue to be broadcast nightly; 2) on Saturday mornings a brief resume of Dick's week would be aired for youngsters barred from listening on school nights. To many a parent it seemed that Dick had won again...
...Lynd and Northrop, a round-table discussion was held by a panel which included: Henry D. Aiken, associate professor of Philosophy; Carleton S. Coon, associate professor of Anthropology; Orval H. Mowrer, associate professor of Education; and Talcott Parsons, professor of Sociology. The round-table phase of the Forum was broadcast over radio station WHDH...