Word: broadcasting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...briefing for selected Czechoslovak journalists, General Prchlík reported that the Russians had set up radio transmitters within Czechoslovakia with which they could either jam all Czechoslovak broadcasts or beam their own propaganda into the country's homes. They had also, reported Prchlík, invited ex-Party Boss Novotny to Moscow to broadcast a plea for Dubček's overthrow via their network. (Last week Novotny was waiting things out at a country villa at Rokycany, about nine miles from Pilsen, where he was under close surveillance.) The Russian embassy in Prague contains a printing...
...talk shows aside, commentary is increasingly moving into straight news programs. ABC, in particular, recently revamped its news format to make room for more discussion and debate, interspersing its regular coverage with the broadcast equivalent of columns. Publisher Bill Moyers, former White House aide, recently went on camera to predict that the next President will be faced with "a national political nervous breakdown." Critic Marya Mannes razzed fashion models who have "no visible sexual equipment." Other commentaries have ranged from the trivial to the trenchant. Samples...
...Telephone Revolution" with newspaper ads inviting supporters to call up and leave their names for an unofficial referendum designed to document the depth of disenchantment with the party's Establishment. Meantime, the Senator's aides are negotiating with TV networks for at least three half-hour broadcast slots prior to the convention, when the candidate will discuss the democratic process, the war, foreign policy and the urban crisis...
...some indication, either directly or indirectly, that such a step is being taken." Hanoi's delegates refused to accept that gambit, but Radio Hanoi implicitly met a longstanding U.S. demand that North Viet Nam acknowledge the presence of its troops south of the Demilitarized Zone. Said a broadcast People's Army statement monitored in Hong Kong: "The peoples and armies of our whole country will continue fighting shoulder to shoulder to firmly inflict ever heavier blows and ultimate defeat upon the U.S. aggressors...
CATV's next move could well be into first-run movies, opera or theater from Manhattan and sports events that are blacked out in some communities. All of this would add up to another anathema of the broadcast industry-pay television. But broadcasters know a snow-free screen when they see it. CBS, NBC and such large station groups as Cox, Westinghouse, Time-Life and Storer have all moved into the CATV business. As a consequence, about 30% of the nation's operating cable systems are owned by conventional broadcasters...