Word: broadcasting
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...systems require special attention because they are designed to provide sound and light of broadcast quality, Clancy says. The sophisticated stage lighting directed at the speaker's platform can flood Tercentenary Theater with 50,000 watts of light, he says, more than enough to waken dozing dignitaries...
With such high quality sound--suitable for FM radio broadcast--Harvard provides feeds to stations who cover the event, eliminating the need for the clutter of microphones often seen at press conferences, Clancy says...
...excess of $325 million, while ABC, which paid $309 million for the Calgary Games and lost $65 million on the coverage, bowed out entirely. Adding to the doubts is the time difference between the U.S. and France, which could enable Americans to learn some results before taped events are broadcast in prime time. Nonetheless, CBS is already considering bidding again. Said CBS Sports President Neal Pilson: "From Albertville it's just four hours down the road to Barcelona" -- home of the 1992 Summer Games...
...network exemplifies this vision more than CNN, whose service is currently available in 58 countries. When President Reagan arrives in Moscow this week to meet with Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev, CNN will provide a special broadcast on a low-power UHF channel available to most Muscovites. The cable network will soon begin selling a Spanish-language news program to broadcasters in several countries in Latin America...
Economics, not communications theory, has been the real impetus for the explosion in the export of U.S. news shows. "What we've got here are programs that are already produced," says Samuel Roberts, executive director of international broadcasts for CBS News. "Anything that we sell for overseas is just gravy." An increase in the number of communications satellites and the relaxation of strict state regulation of TV in many countries have encouraged the growth of new broadcast and cable channels. ABC has signed a deal with Dublin-based Anglo-Vision to distribute its news shows to hotels in 17 European...