Word: broadcasting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...stand in line in sub-zero weather for opera tickets. We'd rather go out and buy that new Kiri Te Kanawa CD than open up this month's phone bill. We'll stay home to watch a Live from the Met broadcast instead of taking our chances on the new Arnold Schwarzenegger film. And even our beloved Mozart, Wagner and Puccini LP's are showing severe wear and tear...
...standard, Jarobin Gilbert is a success. A Harvard-educated linguist with degrees in international law and finance, he commands a handsome salary as a globe-trotting NBC vice president who negotiated the broadcast rights to the 1988 Olympic Games. But every so often, Gilbert is rudely reminded that for people like him, there are still some things success cannot provide -- simple things, like a taxicab. Late leaving for the airport to catch an important business flight, Gilbert stood on a busy avenue futilely hailing cab after speeding cab. Finally he phoned his secretary for assistance...
...television crews broadcast atrocities to Soviet homes. Students didn't take over any campuses. No Congressional doves hampered military efforts. But the Soviets still could...
Filling that void is the mission of South Africa Now, a privately funded half-hour TV-magazine show that strives to keep the spotlight on southern Africa. The weekly broadcast is produced by Globalvision, a small independent production company, with the Africa Fund, an antiapartheid organization. Launched last April, the show airs on about 45 broadcast and cable stations across the U.S. Says Globalvision's vice president, Rory O'Connor: "We saw a need for a program on South Africa and decided to jump in both feet first...
...form of a $100,000 grant from the Rockefeller Foundation and $25,000 from the Carnegie Corporation. The show has also won a satellite slot that will make it available to the nation's 334 PBS stations by late spring. Far from fearing competition from the upstart broadcast, many network staffers are actively rooting for its success. That is one piece of good news about South Africa that everyone can share...