Word: network
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...governor and the attorney general are among the members-and ample funds, from a two-year budget of $350,000. It works hand in glove with the state's White Citizens Councils, whose educational foundation it subsidized with $50,000 last year. It also has a private, secret network of paid spies, who report the attitudes of individual Mississippians toward racial issues and have created a chilling climate in the heart of the Deep South...
...station breaks now last 30 seconds, not long as man reckons life. But into this eyeball-probing half-minute, commercials are stuffed with a vigor that would astonish even a sausage maker. The networks give this half-minute to local stations to keep them happy and affiliated, and the stations often slice it up into 10-and 20-second blocks, and sometimes-although they are not supposed to do this-they sell it in three 10-second blocks. Sometimes the local stations will snip an additional 10 seconds off network time without permission, and sell that too. Thus...
This change of policy has produced the fascinating spectacle of ad agencies complaining about too much advertising. The big agencies control most network programing, and the news that their advertisers' program time will be diminished by 10 seconds, with no reduction in price, gives them fits. "It is our contention that such a move is arbitrary, uncalled for, and a disservice to the American public,"' Young & Rubicam President George Gribbin complained patriotically in a telegram to ABC Head Oliver Treyz. Treyz wired back that the change was, too, in the public interest, because it strengthened the economy...
...which starts by ravaging one noble custom and then infects all, until it has denuded the landscape of that which gave it beauty; a fire, which leaves one great oak a smouldering heap of common ashes and then disappears underground, slowly to burn its hellish fire through a subterranean network of roots until it bursts forth once again as a great blaze, consuming all and leaving nothing...
...ceremonies were shown live on European TV by the Eurovision network. Showings in the U.S. were from tape flown across the Atlantic...