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Cigarette ads were banned from TV in 1971, but tobacco companies are finding new ways to get their names on the screen. Last week consumer-products giant Philip Morris, the world's largest cigarette maker, for the first time broadcast commercials designed to boost its corporate image. The ad, a tribute to the Bill of Rights, makes no overt reference to smoking. Even so, the Philip Morris name is almost synonymous with cigarettes, which bring in about 65% of the company's total profits...
Pull over, Good Morning, America. Hands up, Today. Here comes Roll Call with Debra Maffett and Tom Park -- the centerpiece of LETN, the Law Enforcement Television Network, a novel, $6.5 million, 24-hour broadcast service by Westcott Communications of suburban Dallas. LETN is beamed exclusively to law- enforcement agencies via coded satellite signals. Its mission: to provide police with the latest law-enforcement techniques and training, along with the most up-to-date crime news from around the country. Explains network President Billy Prince, a former Dallas police chief: "There's a terrible lack of knowledge among police. Information...
...WHRB's broadcast of the Harvard-Brown football game was interrupted for about six seconds as a result of the brawl, he said...
...most chagrined to read in last Friday's Crimson your report that the Harvard Lampoon is "the University's wealthiest undergraduate organization" with "a net worth of $1.6 million." Harvard Radio Broadcasting Co., Inc., owned by undergraduates, is the sole owner of WHRB-FM. WHRB-FM's broadcast license is valued between $5 million and $10 million in the Boston market, making WHRB wealthier than the Lampoon. Marc D. Peters WHRB-FM Station Manager
...intelligence officials told The Washington Post last week that Israel had given ballistic missile technology to South Africa in exchange for uranium for Israeli nuclear bombs. The previous night, NBC broadcast television footage of Israeli military officials on assignment in South Africa...