Word: rebroadcasting
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...when Hamburg was next heard, the words were English-a rebroadcast of General Eisenhower's proclamation of last fall: "The Allied forces serving under my command have now entered Germany. We come as conquerors...
This week listeners at Europe's 36,000,000 radio sets might have heard New York's Archbishop Francis Joseph Spellman preaching civil disobedience. The Archbishop's OWI broadcast (his first), rebroadcast by BBC, eloquently urged Hungary's nine million Roman Catholics* to disobey their Government's new anti-Semitic decrees...
...which does carry them, is unavailable because of the war. So to reach Philadelphia, Philco set up an automatic relay halfway between New York and Philadelphia. This picked up the telecast from NBC's Manhattan station WNBT, stepped it up to its original power, sent it on for rebroadcast from Philco's Philadelphia station WPTZ...
...brought one of the U.S. fighting fronts straight into millions of comfortable American living rooms this week. From beleaguered Anzio, Station JJRP (Jig Jig Roger Peter in Army lingo), "the toughest little radio station in the world," was relayed by RCAC to the U.S., where the four major networks rebroadcast its program. It was the first time a broadcasting station had been erected and put into continuous operation so close to the front lines...
...script went on to consider such matters as "white supremacy" in the South, factory morale, manpower shortages, inflation, political "fiddling." Radio dramatization sharpened a book which was itself not very interesting. NBC, which usually avoids a controversial subject had been persuaded by the press & public opinion to rebroadcast a program not originally considered worthy of radio's customary ballyhoo...