Word: broadcast
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...testimony and 78¼ hours of deliberation, a federal jury in San Francisco last week found thin, poker-faced Iva Toguri ("Tokyo Rose") d'Aquino, 33, guilty of treason. During the Battle of Leyte Gulf in 1944, she had traitorously taunted Pacific theater G.I.s with a radio broadcast: "Orphans of the Pacific, you really are orphans now. How will you get home, now that all your ships are sunk?" She was the sixth U.S. citizen convicted of treason since the end of World War II.* The minimum sentence Iva could draw under the conviction: five years in prison...
...bringing a single big game to the air, the three-hour CBS Roundup (Sat. 2:30 p.m., E.S.T.) brings 20. From a master studio in Manhattan, Barber has direct wires to a group of five "live" stations, each covering a different sectional game as though it were a regular broadcast. Also, capsule summaries of lesser games are phoned in at intervals through the afternoon by some 12 to 15 on-the-spot reporters...
Barber uses the phoned reports to bridge the switch-overs from one "live" broadcast to another. By rotating in quick two-minute jumps, he can pick his spots so that a game comes on the air when a touchdown is imminent. It all adds up, says Barber, "to a panoramic view of the American football scene." Further, the Roundup eliminates the endless time-outs and the dull halftime period...
...football game will be televised from New York this afternoon over WNAC-TV for the delight of fans not watching the Red Sox. For those who cannot got near enough to a television set, it will be broadcast over WCCP, but not over WHDH. Henry from playing as much as Valpey would like them to play. Both will see limited action only...
...round-table talks will be followed by the customary question period from the audience. Part of the proceedings will be transcribed and broadcast Sunday over station WHDH...