Word: broadcasting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Some of the most enterprising public service radio programming in recent years has come from the listener-supported FM stations of the Pacifica Foundation. They tackle controversial issues from all sides, broadcast disk jockeys who are knowledgeable as well as funny, and put on first-rate readings from literature. Their news, drawn from their own Washington bureau, has unusual freshness. All this went well at the original Pacifica station in Berkeley, Calif., and at the two newer ones in Los Angeles and Manhattan. But last March, the foundation got into Texas-and trouble...
...latest blast was unquestionably the work of pros. It knocked out a broadcast blockhouse that had been specially fortified with concrete and boobytrapped with alarms and electric-shock devices after the first incident. As a result, the insurance company-which raised the station's annual premium from $750 to $2,200 after the first bombing-canceled its coverage. That move brought the threat of repossession of KPFT's surviving equipment. Other Houston stations became more leary than ever of sharing facilities and antenna towers with the Pacifica outlet...
Tiny Waves. To help relieve the overcrowding, engineers are busily experimenting with new broadcast channels. At present, the highest frequency authorized for commercial communications is 12 billion hertz (for cycles per second), which lies at the extreme upper end of the microwave band. Eventually, researchers hope to communicate on frequencies as high as 300 billion hertz, thus greatly expanding the capacity of the air waves. But they will first have to overcome a major natural obstacle. The very small waves produced at such high frequencies-which are as short as one millimeter (compared with 55 meters or more for standard...
...yesterday, a haggard but alert Trudeau read a nationally broadcast statement to officials and reporters gathered on Parliament Hill in the capital city of Ottowa, blasting the FLQ as "a band of murderers" and adding, "I cannot but feel, as a Canadian, a deep sense of shame that this cruel and senseless act could be conceived in cold blood and executed in like manner...
RADIO in the twenties went a long way towards consolidating what had been up to then several different strains of rural music. In 1922, WSB broadcast from Atlanta the first country music show, with an unprecedented response of 9,000 letters requesting more songs and artists. Record companies brought portable recording studios and the musicians flowed out of the hills...