Word: videos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bounce a signal off one of the dozens of satellite-borne transponders serving the U.S. was to send the signal up from a large ground station; most stations are situated in major cities. Today, thanks to the development of amplifiers that produce more powerful transmission signals, a video image can be beamed to the transponders via a small (90-in.) dish mounted on the rear of a minivan. Although these satellite vans have been widely used by TV-news crews since 1984, the vehicles only recently became prized parts of the presidential candidates' technological arsenal...
...Democrats were the first politicians to realize that local broadcast and cable stations have enormous appetites for fresh video programming, for both paid political broadcasts and free footage the stations can use to beef up their news reports. Several Democrats, by beaming political messages to the satellites and telling the stations when the programming will be available, have been able to dramatically expand their coverage in key primary states. Now candidates from both parties regularly arrange for speeches, interviews, press conferences and debates to be beamed to the birds. The strategic importance of these satellite feeds will increase sharply after...
...band currently is working on an extended play (EP) demo tape with six musical tracks that they will circulate to different record companies in order to secure a contract. Green Fuse also plans to take one of the songs on the EP--called "Celebration"--and create a video. The song is "very political," Ross says, adding that it deals with the present situation in South Africa. The video will include actual footage filmed in South Africa and performance footage taped at Johnny...
While she is in the hospital, Laura said she watches television and movies on the VCR and plays video games. "I love the duck hunting game. You know the one where you have a gun and you shoot the ducks on the screen," she said. "If you miss, they come up and laugh...
After the show, Lacroix took over the fabled Opera Comique for a celebration. When the crowd of 800 old pals, press, dandies and punks arrived, they sat down to a 30-minute video of the making of the American Ballet Theater's $350,000 production of Gaite Parisienne, which opened last month in Tampa and is now touring the U.S. The dancing was effervescent, but the stars of the show were the sassy, spectacular costumes served up from the sketch pad of the host. Gaite was a stand-up, cheering hit. After the lights went up, Lacroix joined the crowds...