Word: broadcasted
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...negotiations remained before all sides could agree to stop the killing. Conventional--but not atomic--bombing of Japan continued; by some estimates, more than 15,000 Japanese died in air raids during this final spasm. Finally, at noon Japanese time on Aug. 15, a message recorded by Hirohito was broadcast throughout Japan. Citizens gathered around public loudspeakers, heads bowed in reverence; they had never before heard their Emperor's voice. He told them that "the war situation has developed not necessarily to Japan's advantage, while the general trends of the world have all turned against her interests. Moreover...
EWTN's top draw is Mother Angelica, whose twice-weekly shows (with numerous taped repeats) are broadcast from a studio near the Irondale monastery. Mother Angelica gives new meaning to the phrase "winging it." On Tuesday's Mother Angelica Live, scriptless and sometimes armed only with a theme--youthful piety, for example--she rambles for 30 minutes or so about whatever enters her wimpled head. On Wednesday's installment, she chats with guests, usually priests or laymen who share her conservative views; both segments include calls from viewers. In video terms, it's totally retro, but it works. Says Jesuit...
Throughout his lifetime, Myrbeck held a variety of positions including serving as a radio engineer for the Yankee Broadcast Network, an instructor in electronic theory at Boston Teacher's College and amateur radio operator for the radio-telephone station WISM. The station operated out of Myrbeck's home, and contacted over 200 countries worldwide by voice and Morse code...
While Waco andWhitewater hearingscompete for the Capitol Hill spotlight, lawmakers have managed to find a place on the broadcast agenda for another justice and Treasury department probe: the "Good Ol' Boy" hearings. Senate Judiciary Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), who convened the inquiry today, said sealed affidavits claimed rape and narcotics use may have occurred at one of the "Good Ol' Boys Roundups," an annual gathering staged for federal, state and local law enforcement officers since 1980 in rural Tennessee. Making matters worse, two black agents ofthe Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, one retired and one active, depicted Roundup...
President Clinton,seeking middle ground on a charged presidential campaign issue,backed ratings systems and a "technological fix" to let parents -- rather than Hollywood -- keep broadcast sex and violence away from the eyes and ears of children. "Most of us believe there'stoo much indiscriminate violence, too much indiscriminate sex,too much callous degradation of women and sometimes of other people in various parts of our media today," the President told a family-values conference in Nashville. Clinton's solution: the "V-chip," an electronic circuit that would allow parents to block violent or otherwise objectionable material with remote controls...