Word: broadcasting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fact, when all the extra costs are added in, the total will actually be $325 million, give or take a million or two: ABC has also contracted to build a broadcast center at the Olympic site and to provide foreign networks with a clear signal out of the U.S. Even so, the network is certain it can fulfill Pierce's boast. "You can assume, making the bid we did, that we did a lot of homework," said Roone Arledge, president of the news and sports divisions. "We came into this with the idea we were going to make...
Scheper began communicating back in Pony League baseball, when he would take over the loud speaker and broadcast the games. He moved up to a videotape machine in high school, and then, while warming the bench sophomore year, he and fullback Al Altieri would do play-by-plays from the sidelines...
...radio broadcast, Dacko, 49, a former schoolteacher who was the first President of the former French colony after independence in 1960, proclaimed the country the Central African Republic again and promised to "return sovereignty to the people." At week's end French troops flew to Bangui to maintain order and perhaps to make sure Bokassa does not return from exile...
...more conventional CBS and NBC coverage is all that free of theater. Why should correspondents have to place themselves outside the White House or the Capitol in the sun or the wind to speak their piece when it would be easier and cheaper to get into a cab and broadcast right from the studio? At least all three network news shows are no longer lookalikes. One of them overworks the eye in the interest of excitement. The other two spend vast sums photographing events but don't let pictures distract from the serious business of dispensing information. Viewers...
...province, The March of Time belonged to Larsen. In 1928 he produced a series of radio spots distilling news items from the current issue of TIME. The idea developed into The March of Time, an amalgam of journalism and showmanship that lasted until 1951. The program was first broadcast nationwide on CBS radio and then converted to film by Larsen in collaboration with Louis de Rochemont of Fox Movietone News (it won two Oscars in its 16 years...