Word: programming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...persistent criticism about his program generally, and austere Sunday broadcasts in particular, Sir John's answer has been: "So long as I am the director-general there will be no change in the character of Sunday programs. . . . The B.B.C. has never attempted to give the public what it wants. It gives the public what it ought to have." While Edward VIII was Prince of Wales, an observer remarked: "Every year the Prince gets more democratic, and Sir John Reith more regal...
...Ormesby Bank, four miles from Middlesbrough at the edge of the North York Cleveland moors, months of experiment were triumphantly concluded when an Soft, steel antenna caught 70 minutes of television program transmitted from Alexandra Palace through 220 miles of fog-thickened English air. Freak bounces of ultrashort waves have been recorded: Alexandra Palace signals have been picked up as far away as South Africa. But 50 miles has been the generally accepted limit for reception of reliable pictures...
Copyright law protects BBC television programs from being exhibited to paying audiences. So, to have something to show his incipient spectators, Mr. Sagall will have to use his revolutionary new projection process as a lever either to force BBC to supply programs or to induce Parliament to license an independent program service...
...successful of the C.I.O.'s affiliates (to Chairman John L. Lewis, its record was "magnificent"); its struggle first for existence, then for recognition had become a fight for better contracts; it had become an innovator in union procedure; it had gone beyond business unionism to fight for its program in the political field...
...Government executive agencies. Named chairman of the committee was Wyoming's trust-busting Senator Joseph C. O'Mahoney, named a member was Idaho's trust-busting Senator William Edgar Borah, who declared: "I venture the belief that the committee is not proposing any witch-hunting program...