Word: telecasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hundred hours later, on Christmas Day, West zone viewers saw their first regular telecast: a Christmas play, carols and hymns, man-in-the-street interviews at Cologne Cathedral. Promised for the future: sportcasts. ballet, drama, pickups of shows from cabarets. In the hope of capturing viewers in Communist-occupied Germany, the West zone is broadcasting with Russian-type equipment and transmits the same 625-line TV picture that is standard behind the Iron Curtain. The Reds have met this threat by refusing to sell TV sets to individuals. Instead, receivers are installed only in factories, meeting halls, schools and restaurants...
...instantly became a TV performer on a 49-station NBC network, courtesy of Smith, Kline and French, manufacturers of pharmaceuticals. Though physicians gathered at A.M.A. meetings had previously watched childbirth over closed-circuit hookups (TIME, June 25, 1951), this was the first time that a delivery had been telecast for the general public...
...Next Corner. Ike and Mamie watched Nixon on television in the auditorium-manager's office upstairs. By the time Nixon's telecast ended, Mamie was dabbing at her eyes and Ike was jumping with fight. He strode into an adjoining room with four members of his staff, threw aside his prepared speech on inflation and began scribbling notes for a new speech. At 10:30 p.m., to Bender's enormous relief, Ike came into the auditorium. ("Here we go, boys," he said over his shoulder. "You never know what's around the next corner.") The crowd...
...fast as TV itself. Last year's Joe Louis-Lee Savold fight was carried by only nine U.S. theaters in seven cities. Last week 50 theaters in 31 cities packed in more than 125,000 people who paid close to $400,000 to see the closed-circuit telecast of Rocky Marciano's knockout of Joe Walcott. A drive-in theater in Rutherford, N.J., with a capacity of 1,300 cars, was sold out at $10 a car, and 7,000 chairs were set up for the overflow customers who had to park their cars outside the theater...
According to Fund drive officials, who contacted the Band, it is hoped that the telecast will raise the necessary cash to make up this year's quota, via pledges phoned in during the three hour long sessions. Both WBZ and WNAC will carry the show...