Word: radioing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...battery died, leaving the crew stranded 45 miles south of Martha's Vineyard, with a dead engine and no radio, lights or bilge pump late in the afternoon. The crew was not worried, even as attempts to revive the engine failed...
...that actually happened, of course, the mastodon would squash you flat. The Viacom-CBS deal is about translating media distribution into ad dollars, and in the current world, CBS's TV, radio, billboard and Web properties will make the new Viacom a promotional and marketing juggernaut. Viacom, says PaineWebber analyst Chris Dixon, "is clearly going to be on the cutting edge of any kind of ad spending that's being done across all media...
...channel cable universe cuts its viewership in half? Have fun in a 500-channel medium. Or 5,000. Or 5 million. "You'll be competing for people's attention whether you're a radio website, a TV site or my grandmother's birthday-party site," says Todd Wagner, CEO of Broadcast.com the online video site that Yahoo snapped up last summer for $5.7 billion...
...philosophy and a restless child of Delaware suburbia, to the West Virginia hamlet of Chloe. Alongside what Purdy estimates were a few hundred other local neohomesteaders, the family grew its own tomatoes, slaughtered its own cattle, and kept in touch with the wider world almost solely through National Public Radio. "Those utterly sober, almost somnolent male voices always seemed very homelike," Purdy recalls, perhaps revealing a central influence on his own hypercivilized diction. When the family broke down and bought an old TV set to view a hotly contested World Series one fall, the device ended up in the basement...
DIED. ALLEN FUNT, 84, creator of Candid Camera; in Pebble Beach, Calif. Funt started the hit show on the radio after experimenting with concealed microphones in the Army during World War II. Candid Camera aired on TV, on and off, from 1948 to 1990. Among the oddities Funt delighted in watching puzzled humans react to: trick coffee cups, talking mailboxes and bowling balls without finger holes...