Word: broadcasting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...SPENT MILLIONS of dollars for the rights to broadcast the Olympics, and millions more for equipment like a studio assembled in New York, broken down for shipment, and put back together in Innsbruck. Then they assigned American sportscasters who act as if they knew nothing about winter sports to cover the events with only the help of some former participants, whom they title "experts." Frank Gifford, ex-New-York-Giants pro football player and connoisseur of Super Bowls, commented on the Olympic downhill race: "Look at all those people flocking to the slopes. You know, this event is the Super...
...other groups organized themselves last fall into PRO Detroit (People and Responsible Organizations for Detroit). The group called public meetings to discuss busing and invited parents to visit the schools to which their children had been assigned. Using air time donated by local radio and television stations, PRO Detroit broadcast spot ads featuring blacks and whites (some of whom said that they were antibusing) who urged parents and students to behave. Explains Jack Casey, director of the ad campaign: "Our idea was 'Don't preach, don't try to sell busing, just try to tell people that...
...television spectators will benefit from the 45 cameras positioned throughout the area. ABC, which paid about $8 million for broadcast rights, will put Sportscasters Curt Gowdy, Jim McKay and Frank Gifford plus Pierre Salinger behind microphones...
...potentially corrupting influences of television, South Africa last week was - in the words of one Johannesburg columnist - "dragged, kicking and screaming, into the TV age." More than a million view ers, mostly whites who paid up to $1,200 for color sets, watched the five-hour nightly programs, broadcast in both English and Afrikaans. They included Shane, the Bob Newhart Show, news broadcasts, a concert by the Orchestre de Paris and the film oldie Oklahoma...
...professes confidence that the carbon-copy symbols will cause no confusion. Officials of NETV-whose program Anyone for Tennyson? is being broadcast on public TV nationwide-doubt that. Says Program Manager Ron Hull: "If you see that in New York, you're going to say, 'Those Nebraska hicks stole NBC's symbol.' And that's not true." Lawyers for both networks are pondering whether NETV can claim prior use and force NBC to dust off the peacock...