Word: broadcasting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Police in Warrensville Heights, Ohio, were appalled last week when a live telecast showed Gunman Cory Moore where sharpshooters were stationed as he held Police Captain Leo Keglovic hostage. "They knew Cory had a TV," fumed Police Chief Craig Merchant. When Cory saw the broadcast he shouted into a telephone: "Everything's off right now!" Cory later surrendered after getting a promise that President Carter would telephone him. In a Chicago incident, a TV helicopter circled a hostage site, nearly frightening the gunmen (who mistook it for a possible police assault) into a violent reaction. Such moves enrage authorities...
...celebrate National Day on the first of October, was tedious and painful. On that occasion Khrushchev announced he would withdraw all his experts from China and pressed the Chinese to pay all their debts. [The Soviets also] told the Chinese they wanted to set up a long-range broadcast station in China. Had they won that argument they would have been able to control China's entire communications
...Compton. Marlene Sanders, ABC's vice president for documentaries, is more optimistic. "Women have only just been admitted to the system. Five years from now more of us will be ready for top jobs. It takes time." Too much time, some women fear. Says Public Broadcasting Commentator Lynn Sherr: "Think of the possibility of two women anchors on a network news broadcast, and you'll understand we're still...
...came to listen asked for their money back. But in Oakland, California, in late summer, the right audience came. They wanted that beat. They got it and loved it and the band moved on to its big break, playing Hollywood's Palomar Ballroom in a series of concerts broadcast by radio across the country...
...started a climb that, except for a lull in the Second World War, has not stopped yet. A great American tradition started with The Lucky Strike Hit Parade--a national radio show that played the recordings tallying as the nation's biggest hits. The Top 40 was born. The broadcast came on at a time when it was not unusual for 20 million people to listen to a single radio show...