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...when he died last week, at 78, it was apparent that of all the pioneers of TV's first generation, Allen remains the most relevant, one of the half-dozen indispensable people in the medium's history. When he became host of a new late-night broadcast on NBC called the Tonight show in 1953, he was a revolutionary. The infant medium was still feeling its way, adapting the formats of radio and vaudeville and the Broadway stage. Allen, who had honed his skills in local radio and TV, seemed to understand the medium in a new way. He relaxed...
...more money. About 20 percent of what a campaign brings in is usually spent to raise more money. Large amounts are also spent on campaign staff, consultants, pollsters and fundraisers. The spending that voters do see often comes in the form of television advertising, both on cable stations and broadcast stations. Because broadcast advertisements on television are so expensive, it is often brief and, some consultants claim, ineffective. Thus, the very size of the campaigns does not mean that whoever wins will have bought the election. The problem with all the money is not that citizens' votes are being bought...
...renewal of the Harvard-Yale football rivalry, Harvard will head off to Hanover, N.H. to play Dartmouth. It will be the Crimson's first chance at revenge against the team that ruined its national title hopes last season. Ruggiero will definitely be listening to the radio broadcast...
Members hope the shorter meetings will mean more people stay around at the meetings and keep their television sets tuned for the duration of the meeting to the school district's cable channel, where meetings are broadcast live...
...government fears more outbursts of violence from both sides of the religious divide--meaning Israel itself could be turned into a real battleground. Television stations did not broadcast the full footage of two Israeli soldiers being lynched by Palestinians in the West Bank, out of concern that it would prompt reprisals against Israeli Arabs. "It's a very, very ugly situation," says Bishara. "Here, in this democracy, you have to fear for your life because of your ethnicity...