Word: channelized
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Nine years later he was offered a post he could not refuse: the directorship of BBC-2, Britain's new high-brow channel. His stewardship produced such series as The Forsyte Saga, Civilisation, The Ascent of Man and America. Attenborough, the brother of Actor-Director Richard Attenborough, did not thrive on administrative duties, however, and in 1977 he began the three years of work that would produce his own series. Life on Earth was first shown on the BBC in 1979 and has since gone through two reruns, receiving universal praise from British critics. The reason for so much...
...fellow Americans"--Anyone who switches to the channel showing the movie is unpatriotic...
...that sense, Communism today is a different sort of phenomenon from capitalism and democratic socialism. While bolstered by elaborate political superstructures, capitalism and socialism are still primarily economic systems that succeed or fail on how well they channel the energies of their producers and meet the needs of their consumers. The numerous, severe troubles afflicting capitalism and socialism today-inflation, recession, unemployment, poverty and urban decay-are all basically economic ills with political side effects...
...Radio and television broadcasts are to be restricted to one station and channel. Programming will be supervised by government-assigned teams. All broadcasting is to be done from Warsaw; regional broadcasting is suspended...
...this conclusion. Up against weekly Saturday-night competition of soccer highlight and a drama on the BBC, Carson "has averaged a 36% share of the viewing audience," by Grade's reckoning. But Britain's Broadcasters' Audience Research Board lists the top ten programs on each channel. Tonight has not joined the roll call. It seems for once that the viewing public may be speaking as one with the critics...