Word: broadcast
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...said for the old book-learned techniques after all. At 7, one morning, Bangkok Radio suddenly announced that the Premier had proclaimed a nationwide "state of emergency," banning political meetings of more than five people. Then, as Thai air force Sabre Jets screamed over the city, the impromptu news broadcast gave way to the stirring strains of Marching Through Georgia...
...legman packs a batch of copy paper. "I'm not out to prove I'm superman but to show there's a need in radio and television for on-the-spot coverage." On call round the clock, he averages an 80-to go-hour workweek, has broadcast more than 2,500 on-the-spot news stories. One of the best: an eyewitness account of a 1955 Harlem gun battle between Manhattan cops and a cornered fugitive...
...large, subscription TV is still a troublesome issue held at arm's length by the Federal Communications Commission. FCC has dawdled over pleas by such big companies as Zenith and International Telemeter for the use of public TV channels to broadcast scrambled signals that only the set of a paying customer could unscramble. Toll TV is bitterly opposed by those it threatens most-TV networks and movie exhibitors...
...Bartlesville scheme neatly bypasses FCC because, instead of the public air, it will use coaxial cable strung on telephone poles to link each set with the broadcast. And instead of alienating the local movie exhibitors, it has enlisted them as partners. The idea originated with Philadelphia's Jerrold Electronics Corp., which pioneered in wiring community antenna systems for towns too remote for ordinary TV signals. The company set out to persuade movie exhibitors that it would "give them a chance to get into the home and compete with TV on its own battleground." The idea appealed to Video Independent...
...Special Broadcast (Sun. 2:30 p.m., CBS). Commemorating Herbert Hoover's 40 years of service...