Word: reached
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...broadcast TV was only beginning to reach a large audience, and newspapers were just starting to carry listings of the times when Comedian Milton Berle and Wrestler Gorgeous George would be performing on the tube-just as newspapers and weekly TV magazines are now starting to list cable offerings. Also, though there is much dispute when cable started, 1949 may have been the year of its birth. One version is that Robert J. Tarlton, owner of a radio and TV repair shop in Lansford, Pa., could sell few TV sets because a mountain outside town blocked signals coming in from...
Anthony Hoffman, cable-TV analyst for Bache, Halsey Stuart Shields Inc., the brokerage house, foresees shows produced by special-interest magazines. "There will be a Popular Mechanics of the Air and a Skiing of the Air," he predicts, and they will reach huge audiences of cultists who rarely read but who watch...
...which was founded in 1972 and leaped audaciously aboard the satellite in 1975, more than doubled its business last year. Its programs now reach 2.4 million subscribers, vs. 1 million at the end of 1977. HBO's sports programming leans largely to documentaries of a sort; for example, an April baseball preview in which American League managers and players discussed the Yankees' chances of whining a fourth straight league pennant. HBO will also spend $13 million on original programming this year. Sample: National Lampoon Presents Disco Beaver from Outer Space, a satirical revue that was shown in February...
...region's comunidades are equally radicalized. Most of Colombia's 5,000 or so predominantly rural comunidades have concentrated on spiritual pursuits like reading, Bible study or training non-priests to lead services in remote districts that the church does not reach regularly. One of that country's priests was asked by his bishop to leave the southern sugar-cane town of Puerto Tejada when he started to help the citizenry demand potable water. In Argentina, government repression has all but destroyed the comunidades. But elsewhere, throughout the hemisphere, the little groups have become a force...
China has launched a drive to achieve "the four modernizations"--a campaign which includes plans to reach state-of-the-art world levels in science and technology...