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Word: programma (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Although the Third Programme is still criticized for a lack of humor, a tendency to dry pedantry and timidity in experiment, its basic idea is now generally accepted in Britain, and is gaining ground overseas. Italy's radio system has begun its own II Terzo Programma, and the Commonwealth networks make frequent rebroadcasts of Third shows. In the U.S., noncommercial broadcasters would be hard put to it to stay on the air without the help of recorded Third Programme dramas and operas. Only the involved problems of international copyrights prevented the University of Louisville from buying the entire Third...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Third's Fifth | 10/8/1951 | See Source »

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