Word: broadcasting
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...some of the regulations for undergraduate organizations that appear on pages 429-30 of the Handbook for Students, such as that "[n]o organization shall be allowed to appear on a commercially sponsored radio or television program" and that "[n]o organization shall in any publication, radio or television broadcast, public performance or otherwise purport to represent the views or opinions of either Harvard University, Radcliffe College, or their student bodies...
...called the radio age. By 1926, 14 years after Edwin Armstrong cranked up his first receiver, the good word was streaming from American radio stations, first shocking and then energizing what was then still a devoutly conservative country. Father Charles Coughlin, a firecracker Catholic priest who pounded a broadcast pulpit from Detroit, built a virtual congregation in just four years. For tens of millions of Depression-era believers, his Shrine of the Little Flower was a beacon of hope--until an embarrassed church pulled the plug. And though there was plenty of anti-Semitism, isolationism and fear mongering in Coughlin...
Most of the panelists--representatives from both print and broadcast media--said they rose to their positions at major networks and publications only after humble internship experiences...
Other media giants have already decided. Two years ago, Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. dropped the BBC's World Service Television news broadcast to China from its Asian satellite to placate Beijing. And sources told TIME that last year Universal Pictures--and reportedly other studios--turned down the chance to distribute Kundun for fear of upsetting the Chinese...
...National Basketball Association turned 50 at the beginning of the 1996-97 season amid much fanfare. To commemorate the event, TNT broadcast a two-hour television special and I--diligent sports fan that I am--was forced to watch...