Word: broadcasting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Viewers' reactions were mixed, perhaps because of the sort of reasoning used by the Times's Michael Ratcliffe: "Suicide, euthanasia, privacy and surveillance: rarely can there have been a broadcast in which so many time bombs of universal interest were ticking away The Independent Broadcasting Authority [Britain's commercial TV watchdog] would have been irresponsible if it had prevented The Case of Yolande McShane from being shown. In the public interest...
...sets-but what appear over the air are three lookalike, sedately animated versions of the New York Times. The professional news-gathering staffs of CBS, NBC and ABC have a caste solidarity. Their views generally prevail because the giant networks are concerned with prestige-and during most of the broadcast day, with game shows and trashy sitcoms, the networks do so little else to earn it. But at long last the sober world of network news is in for major change...
...production processes and spun off four new suburban editions. Sulzberger has also injected new life into the newspaper's parent New York Times Co., which embraces nine smaller dailies, four weeklies, six magazines (including Us, circ. 500,000, a four-month-old imitator of Time Inc.'s PEOPLE), two broadcast stations, three book publishers and part of three Canadian Paper mills. Once an institution more interested in public service than profit, the New York Times Co. is now on Wall Street's goodbuy lists. After several years of see-saw profits (net income was $13.6 million in 1972. $20.3 mllion...
...typical comment, Carlos Castro, president of Chicago's Puerto Rican United Front, noted that the plunderers were poor and lived in slum housing, though he said of the violence: "You can't justify it." So far, there were no signs of a white backlash, even though many broadcast and newspaper accounts of the power failure emphasized the disorders. Sample headline from the Los Angeles Times: CITY'S PRIDE IN ITSELF GOES DIM IN THE BLACKOUT. Newspapers abroad also focused on the looting. A headline from Tokyo's Mainichi Shimbun: PANIC GRIPS NEW YORK; from West Germany's Bild Zeitung...
Hard Hit. All three networks were back on the air within six to eleven minutes after they had been blacked out. At CBS and NBC, emergency power systems atop the Empire State Building were quickly activated. ABC, lacking such a system, had to switch its broadcast feed clear across the continent to Los Angeles. The networks were not as successful in letting their viewers know just what had happened. All finally came across with bulletins that broke into their regular programming after...