Word: telecast
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ideal end result would be a limited-telecast situation in which all colleges playing in one section would receive a share of the high television-intake of the Big Game. Until the trial period withered away, however, no college could be televised more than twice--once at home and once away--and 60 percent of the TV profit would go to the University of Chicago's National Opinion Research Center to pay for a study of the nation-wide effects of the trial...
...tubes.* There was no blurring or running of colors, even in the fastest movement, e.g., a pair of performing lovebirds flapping their wings. As a show topper, an RCA mobile unit focused on a swimming pool near New York where a troupe of swimmers and divers performed. The outdoor telecast, which RCA explained could just as well be a football game or boxing match, came through almost as clearly as the studio show...
Fair on April 30, 1939, Sarnoff made the first U.S. commercial telecast with the words: "Now at last we add sight to sound...
...millions of TV set owners in the U.S., only a few thousand were able to see "the world's first commercial color telecast" last week. Some were specially invited guests who saw the show on CBS colorsets provided in studios in New York, Washington, Philadelphia, Baltimore and Boston. The others were the 1,000 or so ingenious set owners who had built their own adapters and converters for as little as 30? apiece (TIME...
Movie theater owners, who have also been suffering from TV competition, had their own cheering section. Though not telecast over the air, the Louis-Savold fight was experimentally piped by coaxial cable over closed circuits to six cities, shown on eight theater TV screens at prices ranging from 64? to $1.30. More than 22,000 customers saw the show and every theater had a full house. In Baltimore, S.R.O. signs were up an hour before the fight began...