Word: broadcasts
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...hearing, "they're way behind the times." But cult experts disagree. What happened in San Diego, they say, was unprecedented. James Tabor, who teaches religion at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and was involved in the last desperate attempts to communicate with David Koresh by radio broadcast, says, "This group is completely different. These people rather calmly followed suicide as their exit, in a very positive way, to a higher level of existence. They define death not as the enemy of life but as life itself." United Methodist minister J. Gordon Melton, editor of the authoritative Encyclopedia...
Starting new channels has never been easy, but CBS's much belated entry into the cable sweepstakes, which debuts this week, is facing tougher odds than most. The network, to a great extent, has only itself to blame. While its broadcast rivals were busily getting into the cable business (ABC with ESPN; NBC with CNBC and America's Talking; Fox with FX and the Fox News Channel), CBS sat on its hands--or rather, on chairman Laurence Tisch's tight fists. That finally changed in 1995, when the company was sold to Westinghouse, which already owned a piece...
Patrons were also amused several years ago on April Fool's Day when the alternative Boston radio station WFNX broadcast all day that the Nine Inch Nails had scheduled a show at the Tasty. Regulars got high quality entertainment for weeks afterward as suburban teeny-boppers came looking for tickets...
...presents a difficult quandry for the freedom-loving American society, particularly for parents. Like the content of television, newspapers, magazines, books and radio, the messages on the Internet range from the profound to the outrageous. But the Net makes it cheaper and easier than most mainstream-dominated media to broadcast your message to a large potential audience. Anyone can create web pages. Most Internet service providers and online services offer customers server space to publish their efforts on the Net. Whether anyone will look at them is another question. The radical difference between the Internet and other mass media...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Cable companies cannot refuse to carry local broadcast stations, the Supreme Court ruled. On a 5-4 vote, justices upheld the 1992 "must carry" law that said cable providers must include local stations as part of their cable lineup. Cable providers had argued that the law is a violation of free speech because it grants local broadcasters preferential access to cable networks. As a result, national cable channels such as Comedy Central and Fox News can't muscle their way into some desirable full cable systems. "More than 3.5 million viewers have lost access to all or part...