Word: telecasters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...President's traditional postInaugural lunch in the Capitol's Statuary Hall will be televised. Although the Tues day night balls, with such hosts as Reagan Pals Liz Taylor, Ed McMahon and Hugh O'Brian, will be open to 40,000 guests, their revelry will also be telecast to many more at "satellite balls" in such places as Hastings, Neb., Pocatello, Idaho, and even Paris. Tickets to these balls start...
Meanwhile, the British public is frightened. London Photographer Sally Greenhill expressed a common reaction to the broadcast: "I immediately tore up my organ donor card." In the four weeks after the telecast, the number of kidney transplants fell by a quarter, but is now beginning to increase again. British doctors hope the public will finally be reassured in February, when they state their case in a special 90-minute program...
Television sportscasters, in short, are still a long way from mastering the art of the zipped lip. It is this familiar fact that has legions of sports fans eagerly looking forward to a special telecast of a football game that NBC has promised for Saturday, Dec. 20. The teams and site (Jets vs. Dolphins at Miami) are of little importance compared with the radical innovation that will be the main attraction: the absence of the usual game commentary. Thus the telecast will offer-and here Sports Columnist Red Smith leads the cheers-"no banalities, no pseudo-expert profundities phrased...
This blabber-proof telecast looms as far too rare an occasion to waste only in joy over a trial separation from the stream of half-consciousness that usually accompanies athletic endeavors on the tube. While sports fans will surely relish the moment, it should also be seized for grander purposes, for awareness may just be dawning in the Age of Communication that silence is indeed often golden. President-elect Ronald Reagan has so far, often to the chagrin of the press, shown an admirable reluctance to grab all of the many chances he gets to sound off on just about...
...Multiflex goes national on Christmas Day, as Crimson grid coach Joe Restic directs the offensive campaigns of the Union forces in the annual Blue-Grey all-star game, which will be telecast over national television. Crimson stalwart Brian Buckley will reportedly start at quarterback, and Mike Durgin and Chuck Durst will see action as well...