Word: coast-to-coast
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...bugaboo in television's dream of a coast-to-coast network is the formidable fact that the world is round. Until television beams are bent, reception will remain limited to line-of-sight distances which seldom exceed 50 miles...
...itself the ABC (for American Broadcasting Corp.), one Leonard Adrian Versluis (rhymes with caboose) protested. His Associated Broadcasting Corp. of Grand Rapids claimed prior rights to the catchy initials. This week Versluis' ABC announced that it was about to become (on Sept. 16) the nation's fifth coast-to-coast network...
Still very much alive, with coast-to-coast plans for teams in seven cities, was the ambitious young All-America Football Conference. But All-America's road looked none too smooth. Moving last week to smother any postwar competition, the long-established National Football League gave its Brooklyn Tigers (dispossessed of their Ebbets Field home) permission to switch to Yankee Stadium in 1946. This left All-America with only one hope in metropolitan New York: Brooklyn's Ebbets Field...
...some seven minutes the dominant voice on the U.S. air was Frank Sinatra's. The line that linked his CBS coast-to-coast hookup was on another pole...
...Relay to anyone with a receiving set a coast-to-coast broadcast of a movie, television or a facsimile of a newspaper. Raytheon says that microwaves will make possible much better television and radio reception and faster telegraphy than is now possible...