Word: broadcaster
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...past, Castro, 76, managed to neutralize dissidents before they became globally known, like Lech Walesa in Poland or Corazon Aquino in the Philippines. But Paya's celebrity is beginning to rival Castro's. During his visit to Cuba last year, ex-President Jimmy Carter hailed Paya in a speech broadcast to every Cuban household. Paya won the European Union's Sakharov Prize for human rights last December. Vaclav Havel, who led the "velvet revolution" that toppled communism in Czechoslovakia, has nominated Paya for the Nobel Peace Prize. Robert De Niro's Tribeca Film Festival last week canceled its screening...
...appeal to the advertisers, though, with its time-honored, if a touch crass, pitch that it has the richest viewers of any broadcast network. It's true. If NBC were a neighborhood, you couldn't afford to live there. Its most platinum-plated drama, "The West Wing," has an average viewer household income of over $75,000 - $10,000 higher than the second-richest show, "Ed," also on NBC. (A fact that probably kept the incessantly quirky bowling-alley drama on the air despite its middling ratings - while other shows with more viewers but fewer SUV buyers got canceled.) Zucker...
...Foreign Minister Wang Yi to the deliberations. The U.S. sent Assistant Secretary of State James Kelly. And the North Koreans? They sent a worker bee: Li Gun, deputy director general of their Foreign Ministry's American Affairs Bureau. Officials of that rank can, at best, serve as one-way broadcast machines for prerecorded messages from Pyongyang. Just to make sure the Chinese and Americans didn't miss the snub, Pyongyang also arranged for General Jo Myong Rok, Kim's No. 2, to be in Beijing when Kelly arrived?but unavailable for the talks...
...certainly brings a better news broadcast and it’s something that students deserve,” Kauble said...
...committee’s mandate includes both a review of Harvard’s procedures and an examination of how effectively they are broadcast...