Word: broadcasting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Audimeter in Louisville showed that one television set ran almost continuously for two weeks in November 1961, although the two channels to which it was tuned in that period broadcast only eight hours a day. Richardson wondered who had been watching, if anybody...
...Some publicity men and newspaper, magazine and broadcast journalists were carefully cultivated by companies, usually by receiving allotments of hard-to-get "hot" new issues that went up in price just after coming out. Certain financial journalists used their positions of special knowledge and power to profit in the market...
...will broadcast its Gus Cannon story to Europe, Africa and the Near East this month. An original song or two will be played, with Gus doing the singing, and someone will warmly recall all the more attractive details of his success story. But, having discreetly pronounced Gus's own all-inclusive account of his life "unintelligible," the VOA will avoid telling the world the complete story of how a man gets to be a folk-music hero at 79-down home in Memphis...
...desert are deeply stirred. One of the most popular songs among Arab kids is How We Build the High Dam at Aswan. Every transistor radio in the Middle East is a Nasser agent. When Yemen revolted against the Imam, Nasser sent them arms and transistors. Arab Communists who broadcast long, windy speeches from Bulgaria have not a chance against Nasser's entertainers...
...broadcast-rating industry was being rated itself last week. Representative Oren Harris' Special Subcommittee on Investigations summoned industry experts, network executives and station operators to try to determine whether the raters "say what they do and do what they say." Starting with the smaller firms which provide local ratings (there are some 200 firms doing such work in Manhattan alone), the testimony turned up some odd bugs...