Word: broadcasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...request-format for poetry and made it work. When he finishes a poem, he picks up the telephone, listens to a new request from a viewer, and makes small talk while he leafs through his library to find the poem or passage wanted. Now for Nordine is broadcast after peak viewing hours, yet hundreds of listeners try to phone in every week. Those who fail to get through send in requests by mail. Last week he read, by request: Alexander Pope's "Ode on Solitude," Robert Frost's "Mending Wall," Elizabeth Barrett Browning...
...Washington President Eisenhower signed a bill setting up a nine-man commission to study the feasibility of a transatlantic television system. The commission, still to be appointed, will report at the end of this year. Primary goal: a method for the U.S. to broadcast TV direct to Europe. Said the House committee report on the bill: "Television can become an important medium in the overseas-information program of the U.S. Its impact upon other peoples could be greater than that of the Voice of America...
...Broadcast Advertising Bureau pointed out that even in the 64 urban areas that have had television stations for three years or longer, radio is still far ahead of TV, both in set sales and in "penetration" of the market. Radio-set sales in 1953 totaled 6,786,000 in the 64 mature areas; TV-set sales were 2,803,000. More significantly, 99% of the families in those areas have radio, only 81% have television...
This week Peiping radio broadcast a note in which the Chinese Communist government "expressed its regret at this accidental and unfortunate incident," offered to pay compensation and said its pilots had mistaken the British plane for a Chinese Nationalist bomber. A few hours later the State Department announced that there was more to the story than had been told: two U.S. planes, from two carriers assigned to "cover and protect" rescue operations, had shot down two Chinese Communist planes which had attacked them over the high seas while they were searching for survivors...
...wife escaped to West Berlin and broadcast appeals to friends in East Germany for help. Reports reached the West that he had tried to commit suicide in his cell. Last week, 19 months after his arrest, the East German news agency, A.D.N., announced that Dr. Karl Hamann had been sentenced to ten years' hard labor in a Communist prison. The charges: having "systematically sabotaged the supply of foodstuff for the population...