Word: network
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that same sort of cold-eyed calculation that keeps the network news programs where they are on the TV schedule-always on the unhappy edge of "prime time," which runs generally from 7:30 p.m. to 11 p.m. Nobody in the management end of the business wants them on prime time because their low Nielsen ratings (generally around 14) would presumably keep people from dialing in any high-rating entertainment show (Nielsen rating: 21) that followed. And no local stations want a network news program at 11 p.m.-which is where Cronkite would like to be-because they can make...
Reinforcements. Still, there were plenty of Reds left in the Rockpile area, their numbers steadily replenished from the fast-multiplying network of jigsaw trenches and concrete bunkers in the DMZ itself. There, according to Marine intelligence, a third North Vietnamese division-the 304th-is preparing to move south. U.S. planes pounded the DMZ again last week, and ranged north into North Viet Nam's Panhandle to blast the Yen Xa railway and highway bridge and flatten a dozen antiaircraft sites. One Navy Phantom was hit by a chunk of shrapnel that slashed through the ejection seat, grazed the pilot...
...transmit a broadcast of the Dempsey-Carpentier heavyweight championship fight.- Heard by 200,000 wireless enthusiasts, the broadcast caused a sensation, and RCA began developing sets immediately. By 1926, sales had passed $83 million, and Sarnoff was a vice president in charge of its newest venture: the NBC radio network...
...including Instructional Television Fixed Service on frequency bands especially reserved by the Federal Communications Commission should be explored. In order to provide two-way television, classrooms should be equipped for transmission as well as reception. With two-way television, any given classroom is part of the educational television network of the other classrooms and therefore children at one end of a hook-up are able to participate actively in a lesson originating at the other end. Where it is possible, the non-public schools should be included in the system...
...needed, named Vorster as Justice Minister, and ordered him to snuff out racial violence. Setting to work with a vengeance, Vorster sent his cops swooping in to arrest African political leaders, beefed up his police force with more men and riot equipment, spent millions of dollars extending the police network of informers...