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Plimpton compared his piece to Orsen Welles' War of the Worlds, a 1930's radio broadcast of alien invaders, which many New Yorkers believed, and added that it had been inspired by similar "wish fulfillment" articles he wrote last summer for the Olympics...
...might be. To ABC's broadcast stations, cable-TV enterprises and publishing ventures would be added Capital Cities' garden of newspapers and specialty magazines, as well as its radio and television outlets. Said Goldenson: "When you put the two together, I felt that two plus two made five...
...Federal Communications Commission had its restrictive 7-7-7 rule, under which no single organization could own more than seven TV stations, seven AM radio stations and seven FM stations. As of next week, the rule will be liberalized to 12-12-12, opening the way for bigger broadcast mergers. Capital Cities owns seven TV stations and ABC five, so they can get together without exceeding the new FCC limit...
...change in programming would not have been all that unusual, but in the Soviet Union of the past three years it was more than enough to prompt the concern that it had happened again--a Soviet leader had died. The suspicion was all but confirmed when regularly scheduled broadcasts during the following six hours were replaced by nature films and classical music. Having mastered the macabre code used to signal the death of Leonid Brezhnev in November 1982 and that of his successor Yuri Andropov only 15 months later, millions of Soviet citizens were fully prepared for the announcement, which...
...forces had killed or wounded at least 700 enemy soldiers, charged ^ that the defending Iraqi troops had again used poison gas; the accusation could not be confirmed independently. (Most authorities agree that Iraqi forces used chemical weapons early last year in an effort to halt an Iranian advance.) Baghdad broadcast TV footage showing hundreds of dead Iranian troops in the battle zone. Even so, the Iranians did not mount the human-wave assault the Iraqis had been expecting for months, possibly because the latest offensive had limited objectives: to strengthen Iranian positions in the marshlands and threaten Iraq's highway...