Word: broadcasting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Broadcasters have rarely questioned the right of a Chief Executive to request access to the audience of 20 million Americans who watch television on any given evening. But last week the two leading networks turned down a request by the White House for live coverage of President Ford's 20-minute prime-time address on tax and spending policy. While ABC agreed to the request-which came on three hours' notice-CBS and NBC both said no. They observed that because the President is a declared candidate for reelection, they could be required under the Communications...
...things off a bit. The first rain of autumn, a torrential downpour, inundated streets, chasing snipers to shelter and for a short time, at least, swallowing the sound of the guns. "God has sent his rain to put out the fire," announced Radio Lebanon's Akhawi during one broadcast. "Pray that it will also wash our hearts." It did not, unfortunately...
...news from Norway that the Nobel Peace Prize had been given to a Russian for the first time in the 74-year history of the award was broadcast to the Soviet Union last week by U.S. and West European short-wave radio. For Winner Andrei Sakharov, 54, the prize climaxed a long and often lonely struggle for human rights in the Soviet Union. Dressed in a baggy gray suit and ill-fitting shirt, he talked with newsmen in his gloomy two-room apartment near the Kremlin. "I hope this will help political prisoners," he said. The phone rang constantly with...
...surprisingly, and not unreasonably, ABC did not broadcast any of these sideshows, but rather concentrated on a small bunch of signs in the corner of the stadium that read, "Welcome, ABC." The halftime show was broadcast without sound and with selective camera work, another tribute to ABC and its high opinion of Ivy League students. Television and the Ivy League don't seem...
...have noticed, the game is not being broadcast this year. That's the moral of all this: that only confrontations between Ivy unbeatens--and maybe not even those--will ever find their way onto the airwaves again. The Ivies aren't dull, but they're not quite what ABC had in mind for a nice Saturday afternoon...