Word: telecasting
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...hundred million people not fortunate enough to own a game ticket spent over three hours yesterday watching the telecast of America's biggest sports spectacle. Those watching the CBS pre-game show were treated to a study in absurdity...
...apprenticeship at the Santa Fe Opera -the prototype of the innovative summer company-has something to do with it, as well as his urbane salesmanship. Gaddes also credits public interest in the exciting young singers who have appeared with the company and admits that the BBC's telecast of the 1978 Albert Herring raised the company immeasurably in the eyes of opera-hungry St. Louisans...
...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...
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...