Word: newscast
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...second-story roof and into the broadcasting studio of WRNL. Half of Richmond is giving ear when the Doctor goes on the air at 8:30 with his morning news and homily. The station people are awed by his ability to spin out a steady, mellifluous 15-minute newscast without notes or script; they are awed still more by his occasional frank admission: "You can take it easy today-there's no news of any particular importance...
...Blue Network last week went the two fattest news "show" contracts of the year: a 15-minute commentary by Raymond Gram Swing for Socony-Vacuum four times a week at 10 p.m., and a 15-minute newscast by Earl Godwin for Ford Motor Co. at 8 p.m. daily...
...Rome's 9 p.m. newscast to Italians had scarcely got under way one night when an Italian voice from Moscow butted in, so rattled the announcer that he quit, after one three-minute round. Rome then made the mistake of shifting to Venice for a performance of the opera Andrea Chénier. When the opera began, every solo became a duet, every duet a trio, until Italian radiomen finally...
...newspapers have one advantage: there are no ads on the front page. Further more, the human eye has learned to skip ads it does not wish to read, whereas the human ear still has difficulty tuning out commercials. Some commercials sound more obtrusive in a newscast than others...
...British public heard the news not many minutes later in a BBC newscast. It was no great surprise, but it left a disturbing question to sleep on. Would the U.S. be able to keep supplies flowing to Britain, now that she was at war herself...