Word: channelize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...came Chicago's The $1.98 Beauty Show on channel ten, WJAR in Providence, R.I. To say that this program is a spin-off of The Gong Show might tell you something, but not enough. An announcer says at the beginning that the show "is a search for the most beautiful girl in the world." Rip Taylor, a manic comedian, of no recognizable talent, hosts this obscenity in which six women, all of whom possess significantly less talent than Taylor, publicly humiliate themselves for a half-hour until a panel of "celebrities" (Edward Winter, Fred Travelena and "Dr." Joyce Brothers) judges...
...have a very strong feeling that we have to elevate the medium," William S. Paley, chairman of the board of CBS, said in an interview published this week in Newsweek. Flatbush premiered Monday at 8:30 p.m. on channel seven in an effort, I suppose, to reassure the viewers that they need not fear any elevation of the precious lack of quality on television. This program seemed somehow even more offensive than The $1.98 Beauty Show because it came from a network with a history of excellence and pretensions of continued quality. An inept rip-off of Saturday Night Fever...
Tomorrow night, and I mean night,(11 p.m. to be exact) the Celtics can be seen (on the tube) playing the Los Angeles Lakers. Another sporting event coming from L.A. Which will also be televised is the Glen Campbell-L.A. Open. The linksters will putter around on channel 7 at 5 p.m. Saturday...
Other TV action Saturday afternoon includes the ECAC Basketball wildcard playoff doubleheader (channel 4, 1:30 p.m.) and the incomparable Pro Bowler's Tour Cleveland Open (channel...
...real issue is student participation in this University's decisions, and even CDU hasn't quite figured that one out. The CDU's own statements illustrate the difficulty of working within the assembly structure. Pronouncements like "The assembly must work to channel the mandates of students' opinions in University policies" and "The Student Assembly should form a committee... [to] make recommendations" and "The assembly must encourage..." all leave the assembly essentially in the business of resolution passing...