Word: telecaster
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Early last week Chinese TV viewers were urged to tune in, please, for "an important news program" to be aired next day. But the promised telecast was postponed twice, and when the big announcement came at midweek, it only deepened the mystery: like the Tienanmen parade, the great state banquet, which is always hosted by Premier Chou En-lai on the eve of National Day, would also be scrapped. Instead, a perfunctory reception took place that was notable for the absence of any Chinese officials higher in rank than doddering old Vice Chairman Tung...
Baltimore. July 1970. Dr. Delano Meriwether, a 27-year-old hematologist, is stretched out on his bed watching a telecast of a track meet between the U.S. and France. He stares intently at the 100-meter dash, turns to his wife Myrtle and says, "Hey, I think I can beat those guys." Myrtle nods and mutters, "Sure, honey...
...much to share? There followed long and delicate negotiations over television coverage. It was finally agreed that TV cameras could video-tape all of the wedding proceedings except the actual ten-minute ceremony. Even what the cameras can record cannot be shown live; the networks will telecast the tapes later...
...board planned to show the film in a dozen major U.S. cities this week to coincide with both the Christian Holy Week and the beginning of the eight-day Passover celebration at sunset Friday. "In April," announced an ad in Christian Herald, "one million Jews will watch one Christian telecast." If the million are in front of their TV sets, they will be watching something else. In the face of criticism from the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, the Synagogue Council of America and the New York Board of Rabbis, the New York showing...
...Georgies Awards telecast, a self-congratulatory outing for variety performers contrived for Ed Sullivan, was well ahead in the competition until last week, when the record industry's Grammy Awards show on ABC descended past all previous lows for tedium and tastelessness. But two major contenders for the Uggy still loom ahead. TV's own Emmy show always finds fresh ways to embarrass the medium, and though little has leaked about next month's Oscar cast, there is reason to take faint heart: the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award will be given, with a straight face, to Frank...