Word: telecasters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hold on to your hats, folks. Turner is back, once again doing what he enjoys most: pushing a big and bold new cable venture. Dubbed, with typical Turner flourish, TNT (Turner Network Television), the new channel will debut on Oct. 3 with a telecast of Turner's favorite movie, Gone With the Wind. After that, it will offer an array of, in Turner's modest description, the "finest programming on this planet," ranging from Charlton Heston in A Man for All Seasons to (Turner hopes) major sports events like the Rose Bowl and the Masters golf tournament. Industry observers...
Broadcast live by Nippon Television Network from the summit, the alpine telecast captured another historic moment: the first time that two teams had scaled the mountain simultaneously from the Nepal and Tibet sides...
...town meeting was especially delicate to organize. Palestinian audience members were bused to the theater for the 6:30 a.m. telecast only after special approval came from Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin. A number of potential Palestinian panelists refused to participate. Speaking for the Palestinians, they claimed, is a role that belongs only to the P.L.O. The three representatives who did appear insisted that the wall be set up and avoided even looking at the Israelis for most of the show...
...teams in ECAC competition, recalls his team's Final Four game with Minnesota this year. Marsh calls the Saints' 3-2 overtime victory "the best college hockey game I ever saw," but ESPN, the cable sports network that had the rights to televise the game, decided instead to telecast the NCAA women's basketball semifinals...
...Justice Department; challenging the evidence is Lord Rawlinson, a former British Attorney-General. The international panel of judges -- including Shirley Hufstedler, former U.S. Secretary of Education -- will consider five specific charges against Waldheim. The verdict will not be taped until just prior to the show's telecast...