Word: telecasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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That same evening, viewers in Great Britain, Italy, France, Germany, The Netherlands, Denmark, Belgium and Switzerland also saw a 50-minute program telecast from the Vatican, including views of St. Peter's, of Michelangelo's Pietà in the basilica and of the Raphael rooms in the Vatican Museum. The show concluded in the Hall of the Consistory (where few viewers would ordinarily be permitted in person) for a brief address by the Pope in five languages...
...visits to Chillon and the Vatican inaugurated a month's telecasting by an international exchange network called Eurovision. The idea developed as a result of the successful telecast to France of Queen Elizabeth's coronation ceremonies. France's Jean D'Arcy urged international transmissions on a larger scale last Christmas, but the project was held up by technical difficulties. Not all the problem are solved even now. France and Britain use different standards, and both of them differ from the European norm of a 625-line image. Four "converter" stations have been set up: at Dover...
...movie, flown here from New York, shows Murrow making his charges against McCarthy, the Senator's reply, and Murrow's final answer. The dispute was shown on Murrow's television program last month, but was not telecast originally in Boston...
Three networks-NBC, ABC and Du Mont-telecast the opening two days in full. CBS, with the most daytime-sponsor bookings at stake, took the stand that televiewers ought to have a choice of entertainment ("Not everybody wants to get in on the McCarthy fight"), and confined itself to Morning Show and late-at-night filmed highlights. After a look at the ratings, NBC this week announced that it would substitute filmed summaries for the real thing. The first two days, reported the network, had cost it more than $125,000 in canceled commercial programs. ABC, with some 50 stations...
...Sundays and holidays, and St. Louis will televise home games only when the ballpark is sold out. Baltimore, a majorleague newcomer, will broadcast 26 home games and 30 on the road. And Cleveland is making an experiment this season that other cities are watching: no home games will be telecast, but all road games will be seen on Cleveland TV screens. The hope is that this will whet the fans' appetite for the home games. If Cleveland's paid attendance improves radically, many other teams may switch to the same plan...