Word: network
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...antics cadged kids into eating lunch. Then he transplanted to Hollywood and bloomed on. He was such a smash that the stars lined up to get smacked by one of Soup's foam-filled pies. Things were going so well that ABC put him on the network. He bombed out. Then last fall a local New York channel tried...
...matched the earth's 24-hour period of rotation. In effect, the intricate electronic package put together by Hughes Aircraft picked a spot high above the equator between Brazil and Africa, and there it hovered, ready to begin its job of pointing the way toward a worldwide communications network...
Last week's demonstrations and scapegoat were not the first in the French exhibitors' fight against TV's increasingly damaging competition. Last January the movie-theater owners' federation even ventured a $20 million damage suit against the French national television network, which is run by the government. The charge: "unfair competition," which has reduced cinema attendance throughout France a full one-third since 1958. Their federation's lawsuit was thrown out, with the theater owners ordered to pay the court costs...
...relay station in space. After several days of testing, it will beam a series of international telecasts. Then its 240 two-way voice channels will be switched on for telephone calls-Comsat's first revenue-producing operation-and will provide 24-hour service to Europe. Later, after a network of satellites is launched, worldwide telephone service will be available...
...investment in the satellite, $3,300,000 paid to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration to make the shot. The corporation also hopes to determine before the year is out which of three satellite systems-Early Bird or two medium-altitude systems-to use in the eventual global network. Even if successful, Early Bird will not mean any quick profits for the corporation. Last week, in an annual report to 190,000 stockholders, the company's officials cautioned that "no assumptions as to the amount of earnings or their date of beginning should be made at this time...