Word: broadcasted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Nevertheless, the manhunt moved swiftly and efficiently for the team of federal and local investigators dealing in twisted truck parts, traces of ammonium nitrate in the wreckage, and forged car-rental documents. Luck played a role as well: in spite of the composite sketch resembling him that was broadcast nationally as early as Thursday afternoon, John Doe No. 1 almost got away...
...Bloomington area, but it has never attracted the kind of national attention that would capture a slot on network TV. Though local sponsors chip in enough to keep Everson clothed, housed and fed, Nickell still has to support himself as a waiter. So the pair set their sights beyond broadcast TV, beyond cable TV, to the computer networks. Last week, as their 85th episode, Global Village Idiots, was flickering across Bloomington televisions, it was simultaneously stored on the Internet, where millions of people worldwide could retrieve it--the first television show broadcast in cyberspace...
...weeks ago by Progressive Networks, a company based in Seattle and founded by Rob Glaser, former vice president for multimedia at Microsoft. Until Glaser came along, using the Internet to carry audio programming was painful for home-computer users. For instance, Internet Talk Radio, based in Washington, has broadcast an interview show called Geek of the Week for two years, but home listeners have had to be patient: even using a high-speed, 14,400-bit-per-second modem, it took an average of two hours to download a 15-minute show...
Glaser's new system, called RealAudio, solves that problem. Taking advantage of the latest advances in digital compression, it delivers AM radio-quality sound in so-called real time. Click on an icon representing the show you want to hear, and you will hear it immediately, broadcast through your computer's speaker system. Or you can select a sound segment or a series of segments and listen to them in the order you choose. Onscreen buttons let you pause, rewind and fast-forward through a program...
...evade the ramifications of the freeriderproblem, WBUR attempts to persuade listeners thatthey have actually entered a contract to pay fortheir programming. Thus the following post-showpatter: "I hope you enjoyed the BBC broadcast wejust heard. And I hope you realize that that theBBC charges us hundreds of thousands of dollars tosubscribe to their services. Now weeeeeee spendthat money for that service because youuuuu toldus youuuuu wanted it. Weeeeee take that risk, andyouuuu owe it to us to make those telephonesring...