Word: broadcasting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...propaganda and battlefield reports can't fill an entire broadcast day. The rest of Lighthouse TV's schedule is a wildly disjunctive cocktail of prayers and quiz shows, Egyptian sitcoms, jingle-filled ads for imported detergents and computer-generated graphics of holy men. General manager Ahmad, who abandoned a career as a mechanical engineer to join Hizballah, thinks he can "participate in the resistance" as well as turn a buck. He claims Lighthouse ranks fifth among some 50 Lebanese TV stations, and that advertising provided a third of last year's budget...
...since 1992, according to Le Monde. A female CIA officer and her male partner first tried to bribe a member of parliament with 500-franc notes to reveal France's negotiating position on world-trade talks, when Washington was pressing Paris to lower agricultural subsidies and open its television-broadcast market to U.S. programs. Another senior official in the Ministry of Communications was offered cash for intelligence on telecommunications and audiovisual policy. A technician for France-Telecom, the French telephone network, was also recruited. All three immediately notified the DST, which ordered them to play along with the Americans...
...what we're hoping to broadcast initially is lectures," Silberstein said. "Students who miss their lectures in the morning will be able to watch them in the afternoon...
...added that the program would be cost-effective because the committee is using existing HASCS servers and programs. The project will broadcast over computers because there is no closed circuit or cable television available in Harvard dorm rooms...
...committee plans to broaden the range of broadcast possibilities even more, Silberstein said, but new innovations may have to wait until more students gain access to programming...