Word: telecaster
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...gasped similar words. "It exploded," murmured Brian French, a senior at Concord High School in New Hampshire, as the noisy auditorium fell quiet. At the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., scientists turned away from their remarkable new photographs of the distant planet Uranus and stared, stunned, at the telecast from Florida. "We all knew it could happen one day," said one, "but, God, who would have believed it?" It had happened. In one fiery instant, the nation's complacent attitude toward manned space flight had evaporated at the incredible sight in the skies over Cape Canaveral. --TIME...
...refusing to be “bullied,” Johnson has gone to great lengths to eliminate all means by which the NCWO could pressure Augusta, including canceling all corporate sponsorship for next year’s Masters telecast. As a result, Augusta will be sacrificing $18 million in advertising revenues, a price that the club is willing to pay for its right to discriminate...
College GameDay executive producer Mark Gross said he initially discarded the idea of an Ivy-League telecast, since the show gets offers from so many college football programs across the country—most of them more high-profile than the Crimson...
...produce an awards show for movies that simply keep it too real to win Academy Awards. Memento, Tenenbaums and The Man Who Wasn’t There would top this year’s list. A “Best Ensemble Cast” statue would be awarded. The telecast would last a mere two hours. And we would all be unhappy anyway—left with nothing to complain about...
This year’s telecast also featured the first-ever Webby Lifetime Achievement Award, which was presented to Ray Tomlinson and Douglas Engelbart, two of the pioneers in the development of the modern computer experience. Tomlinson is credited with inventing e-mail, Engelbart with the mouse. Andy Grove, the CEO of Intel, presented the duo their awards...