Word: telecasting
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...telecast seven of the past ten Olympiads, Winter and Summer. It has worked hard, spent mightily and trumpeted loudly to make itself "the Network of the Olympics." Starting this week, it will be beaming 63.5 hours over 13 days. The network is expecting (and praying) that at one time or another, 200 million Americans will tune in to the true, permanent site of the Games, the TV screen...
Longest Goodbye: The 2½-hour final episode of M*A*S*H, telecast by CBS last February to unprecedented ratings, and followed by the Fastest Return: AfterMASH, unveiled just seven months later...
Other programs provide similarly elusive Kennedy retrospectives as well. ABC presented a lengthy review two weeks ago, and will televise a memorial service for JFK today. PBS will telecast "Thank You, Mr. President: The Press Conferences of JFK"; local programs in Boston--like "Good Day!" and "Chronicle"--will provide similar examinations...
This Saturday, as the Metropolitan Opera turns 100 years old, it is wrestling with this question as never before. The centennial celebration, to be telecast live on PBS, is an extravagant affair lasting eight hours; offering a nonstop parade of stars (Domingo, Pavarotti, Milnes, Sutherland, Nilsson, Te Kanawa, among 90 others), it seems to be a ringing affirmation of the opera-as-vocalism theory. But the Met gala is more likely a capstone than a portent, for the very nature of opera is being changed by history and technology. The Met-which began life...
Party leaders brushed aside concerns about possible demonstrations by the city's gay community and the logistics of the Pacific time zone, which may cause some convention events to be telecast in the East after midnight. Manatt argued that the Democrats have neglected the Western states and paid for it in poor showings by the party's presidential candidates in the West since 1972. The last Democratic Convention that went west was the 1960 one that nominated John F. Kennedy in Los Angeles. Said Manatt: "Once every 24 years isn't too often...