Word: broadcasting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Brasselle's protagonist is Jonathan Bingham, the sadistic and ruthless president of BCA ("Broadcast Corporation of America"). Bingham is "the smartest sonovabitch this business has ever seen," and would "slash his own mother's 'wrists in order to win, and take pleasure doing it." He enjoys a lurid private life: cadres of call girls in New York balanced by orgies on the Coast. He hangs out at Mercurio's restaurant in Manhattan, wears Italian marble cuff links carved with the network initials and terrorizes the television industry. But BCA boasts smarter savages than Bingham...
...vain, the commission argued that although any number of newspapers may be published, broadcast frequencies are limited in number, and those licensed to use them could, if not regulated, offer the public only a narrow range of opinion. But the court insisted that both rules were not only too vague, but could inhibit stations from airing controversy. As for the argument that radio-TV might not offer enough diversity of opinion, the court added almost gratuitously: "In most major metropolitan areas there are several times as many radio and television stations as newspapers...
...persistently refrained from Rock & Roll over the last decade, presumably to avoid sullying its air channels with anything so low-brow as a dancing beat. But there is no keeping down a good backbeat ("you can't lose it") and the new hour-long rock program will be broadcast at 6 p.m. on Saturdays for the rest of the year...
...talk about the damage that trigger-happy Soviet soldiers and their tanks inflicted on Czechoslovak buildings and autos. Above all, there must be no criticism of Warsaw Pact countries or use of the word "occupation." Censors canceled a nationwide TV and radio address by Dubcek one hour before broadcast time because he planned to say that the resumption of censorship was to be only a temporary measure. A few days later, he finally got to make his speech, but the section on censorship was deleted...
...invasion, the Czech press has carried its battle for freedom to extraordinary lengths. Many top newsmen, fearing for their lives, have fled to the West, but others have carried on. After Russian troops marched in to close them down, most Czech papers published underground editions. Television newscasters managed to broadcast from studios over portable army transmitters, and C.T.K., the government news agency, opened a clandestine telex service. Editors sneaked past Russian surveillance to confer with Dubček's cooperative aides, promised to try to appease the Russians by imposing self-censorship...