Word: telecast
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Regular telecasting will begin Sept. 11, with each station using its own staff and studios (but sharing the same transmitter atop Mount Toro). The stations will telecast a combined total of 85 hours a week -splitting the week nights and taking Sundays by turn. Four other share-time permits have been granted to stations in Rochester, N.Y., Minneapolis-St. Paul, Phoenix, and Kansas City...
...telecast last week, Democratic Boss Kenneth Sutherland of Brooklyn took exception to the term "political boss." His suggested substitute: "political managing director...
Summer School (weekdays, 4 p.m., CBS-TV) adds an educational grace note to the dissonance of daytime TV. Telecast from Philadelphia, and featuring teachers and specialists from all over the U.S., the show is aimed at children, but may equally interest their parents. Summer School touches lightly on everything from astronomy to zoology. Its effectiveness varies from day to day, depending on the subject chosen and the personality of the teacher...
...NETWORKS." Muttered one ABC official: "They should have spelled it 'tapped.' " CBS, though the winner of the race from Goose Bay, was the last network to get on the air. Making up for defeat by cutting and splicing its own films in London, CBS was able to telecast the actual crowning ceremony before the more leisurely Canadian Broadcasting films had finished with the procession to the Abbey...
Actually, the British TV coverage was a triumph of taste as well as technique. Many Britons had feared that televising the coronation would vulgarize it, but even the London Times observed that "posterity may well judge the telecast one of the wisest acts." To the millions who viewed the coronation on TV sets in Britain were added other millions of viewers in Germany, Holland, France and Belgium. Among the viewers: Chancellor Adenauer in Germany, Queen Juliana in The Netherlands, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor in Paris. Said the duchess: "A very moving ceremony...