Word: broadcasts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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WHCT, which is owned and operated by RKO General, has 200 subscribers for its pay programs and hopes to expand to 5,000 in 1963. Each pays $10 to have a Decoder attached to his set. The pay programs are broadcast in scrambled signals, and the Decoder, which looks like a table radio, straightens them out. The subscribers pay 75? a week as a basic rental fee, plus an average of $1.25 for the programs they select. Costs are recorded on a tape in the Decoder. The viewer rips it off like a grocery bill and sends it in with...
...eagerly awaited broadcast of the Secret Army Organization came on after its usual theme, a few opening bars of a twist tune. The announcer warned that "the coming week will be primordial, decisive, for us Algerians." He hinted broadly that secret talks were under way between the S.A.O. and the Moslem F.L.N., and promised soon to be able to "definitely tell you whether to stay in this country or to leave...
...80th birthday was June 17. And last week, the extravagant tributes to Igor Stravinsky reached a fortissimo as CBS broadcast the world premiere of Stravinsky's only composition written expressly for television...
Fleeing Billions. In Algeria, De Gaulle's confident words were met by a new upsurge of S.A.O. hatred. His broadcast had scarcely ended when the S.A.O. launched a bazooka attack against Radio Algiers, and startled radio listeners heard screams and gunfire over the air waves. The one-week truce was abruptly broken by hit-and-run attacks on isolated Moslems...
...that's all." Better than Nothing. Efforts have been made to relieve the news drought. The struck papers themselves bought radio time for a daily newscast, and some radio stations have amplified their own news coverage; the daily list of the dead, and even editorials, are now broadcast regularly; TV station WTCN pleaded on the air for an end to the strike. Neither radio nor TV, said the station, could substitute for a city's papers. Suburban Newspapers Inc., which peddles five weekly papers throughout Minneapolis suburbs, raised its press run from 23,000 to the mechanical limit...