Word: broadcasting
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...raise money for health-care organizations serving the homeless in 18 cities. Scheduled to air from Los Angeles next week, Comic Relief will feature a gaggle of gagsters for every age group, from Michael J. Fox to Henny Youngman. HBO will let cable operators make the broadcast available to all subscribers by unscrambling the signal. Goldberg, once a welfare mother who escaped homelessness when friends took her in, says, "I am part of this because I want to cover my butt ... It could be me tomorrow, it could be you tomorrow, it could...
Every evening at 8, one of the French TV networks, Antenne 2, begins its news broadcast in the same way. Eight close-up pictures, framed in lurid yellow appear on the screen, one after the other. As they go by, the anchorman says in an understated voice, "Tonight the French hostages, including the members of the Antenne 2 news team--Philippe Rochot, Georges Hansen, Aurel Cornea, Jean-Louis Normandin--have still not been released." Only then does the news begin...
...recital was televised the same day across Europe and the U.S. and was recorded for possible later broadcast by Soviet television as well. But TV could only begin to suggest what the 1,800 foreign diplomats, Soviet film stars, composers, musicians and ordinary Russians witnessed on an extraordinary afternoon. At 4 p.m. Horowitz emerged from the wings to thunderous applause, cut it short with an impatient gesture, sat down at his personal 9-ft. Steinway, which had been flown in for the occasion, and for two hours held everyone spellbound...
...journalists wondered whether NASA had been under too much pressure from the White House to launch the craft. David Ignatius of the Washington Post decided to look instead at whether the press caused some of the pressure. He picked as his most egregious example this lead-in by Rather, broadcast the night before the blowup: "Yet another costly, red-faces-all-around space shuttle-launch delay. This time a bad bolt on a hatch and a bad-weather bolt from the blue are being blamed. What's more, a rescheduled launch for tomorrow doesn't look good either. Bruce Hall...
...says Dennis Swanson, the new president of ABC Sports. One casualty could be Monday Night Football, a once lucrative ABC mainstay, which lost $25 million this past season. (Two of the show's high-priced analysts, Joe Namath and O.J. Simpson, have already been dropped from the broadcast, though Simpson may remain with ABC as a commentator on college games...