Word: channelized
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...hored supporters milled around the press table, staring evers so often into the bright television lights, and watching in amusement as the local newscasters jockeyed with one another for airtime. The excitement started at 10:30 p.m., when a Channel 5 newsman sidled up to a Crimson reporter, and whispered "we're going to pick Hicks the winner...
Fortunately for Channel 5, an audio malfunction prevented the newscaster from making his prediction, and by the time the problem had been cleared up, the central desk at Channel 5 had decided the race was "too close to call...
...Channel 5's miscalculation was as close as Hicks and her Irish pols got to victory. Although the final tally showed Hicks a loser by only 2000 votes, the congresswoman suffered devastating defeats in the black wards, and secured only a modest 2500-vote margin in Ward 7--her home precinct...
...ACCESSIBILITY was confined not only to her home perctnets but to certain sectors of the media as well. The congresswoman played up to television and generally ignored radio and the newspapers. On Election Night, the quickest way to find out the vote total was to pick up the Channel 5 crib sheet or call Moakley headquarters Hicks's campaign strategists were holed up in a locked cloak room, counting tally sheets brought in periodically from the polls...
MONDAY: Bogart. Bogey fans get a break. Cambridge's own Channel 56 begins a week-long Bogart festival tonight with To Have and have Not. Other features include Treasure of the Sierra Madre, Casablanca, The Maltese Falcon, and Key Large...