Word: broadcasting
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Lopsided. Marcos' harshest edicts have been reserved for the press and his political opponents, many of whom still languish in jail without any charges being lodged against them. Only three of Manila's seven television channels have been allowed to broadcast again; last week Marcos ordered others permanently closed. "It would be too unpopular to keep them all closed down," observed one Manila businessman. "After all, a television set is the biggest investment of most families." The only newspapers available are those that are uniformly pro-Marcos; censorship has increased the hunger for news, though not universally. "I think...
While the 727 circled the Yugoslav airport, the skyjackers broadcast a new demand-that the three prisoners be flown to Zagreb and released there. Meanwhile the Germans had worked out a set of conditions. If possible, they wanted the skyjackers arrested "without endangering the passengers and crew" of the jet. If that was not feasible, they told Yugoslav officials, the three prisoners were to be exchanged for the hostages. But if the skyjackers would not agree to the terms, the prisoners were to be returned to West Germany. In preparation for the deal, Lufthansa Board Chairman Herbert Culmann...
...odds would be longer were it not for the Nixon landslide apparently building in North Carolina. Opponent Jesse Helms, 51, is a Raleigh television commentator who never before has run for office and, indeed, switched to the G.O.P. only two years ago. Arch-conservative Helms, who also broadcast over an 80-station radio "tobacco network" in eastern North Carolina before he took a political leave, criticizes even Nixon as too liberal...
Thompson's managers are also extremely cautious about charting new directions. Chairman Dan Seymour, 58, who earns $176,000 a year, is a natty, silver-haired executive who joined the agency in 1955 as chief of broadcast-time buying. A former radio announcer, he still speaks in the sepulchral tones that he used for Duffy's Tavern and other shows. Seymour is a prudent man who is fond of saying things like "Every breeze is not a wind of change." Despite Thompson's problems, Seymour insists, the agency is "now back on the track...
Cooke went on to describe the commercial breaks during the game. "There are 18 commercials during the broadcast, 12 are during the game. Of course we try to break the game where no momentum is gained or lost by either team," Cooke said...