Word: broadcasted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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After four days of pitching their hastily improvised vision of a loosely knit union of sovereign states to wary Soviet legislators, Mikhail Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsin tried to sell an equally skeptical audience on the viability of their new enterprise. In an extraordinary live broadcast orchestrated by ABC television that linked U.S. viewers with the Kremlin's St. George's Hall, the Soviet and Russian presidents sought to allay American fears that there would be any backsliding toward communism...
...first, Jeffries' speech escaped wider public attention. Then NY-SCAN, the state's cable-television channel, broadcast the performance, and the New York Post published a long account of it. That set off an indignant debate that had larger implications...
...different. Unlike in 1981, he didn't invite his erstwhile partner Art Garfunkel to join him. Simon, now the Midas of polycultural pop, seemed determined to banish the ghost of the folk-rock sound that made him famous. Backed by a 17-piece band, he kicked off the show (broadcast live on HBO) with the rousing samba tattoo of The Obvious Child, from his album The Rhythm of the Saints, and kept up the momentum with 2 1/2 hours of undulating, Afro-Caribbean-flavored music. The older songs that were included were transformed, including a reggae-tinged Bridge over Troubled...
...Auletta, a resourceful and very fortunate reporter, was sitting at breakfast with Tisch that morning. In fact, Auletta seems to have been practically everywhere he wanted to be over the past six years. He began researching Three Blind Mice, his exhaustive behind-the-scenes look at the three broadcast networks, just as they were entering the most turbulent phase in their history. Cable and other competitors were gaining power; network audiences were shrinking; new corporate owners, with a bottom-line orientation, were taking control. Through it all, Auletta was the proverbial fly on the wall. He talked regularly with...
...with no strategic vision and few management skills. Tom Murphy, who engineered Capital Cities Communications' 1985 acquisition of ABC, is the hero of this tale by default. Though Cap Cities' no-frills style caused a rude culture shock at ABC, eventually Murphy proved to be the most humane and broadcast- ) savvy of the new network owners...