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Recorded in September 1985 by the Bedford-based Gospel Workshop for Children, a nonprofit evangelical Christian "music ministry" organized by Sharon's mother Jan, Dear Mr. Jesus first aired in 1986 on a Port Arthur, Texas, radio station. Word of mouth and a 4 1/2-minute music video starring Sharon and her doll Bessie slowly spread the song on stations in Florida and Texas, where it attracted a response from hundreds of overwrought callers eager to discuss their own experiences with child abuse...
...most requested song; it still prompts 3,000 calls a day. Since then, stations across the country have discovered the same phenomenon. Last week New York- based Island Records was one of several companies seeking the rights to Dear Mr. Jesus. It hopes to have the single and a video available in time for the holidays...
...tech conveniences, enormous screens and dazzling special effects. Waiting in the wings is a new generation of TV sets that are ready, once economic and political hurdles have been surmounted, to deliver images comparable in quality to those of a wide-screen motion picture. Says William Glenn, director of video research at the New York Institute of Technology: "This is the most exciting period in television history since the invention of color...
...When video signals take numerical form, all sorts of manipulations become possible. In addition to displaying multiple channels, the circuits can freeze frames or zoom in for close-ups. Digital VCRs can repeat sequences in slow motion or fast-forward without the distortion that mars conventional machines. Standard broadcast images can also be improved, up to a point. One video recorder made by NEC reduces interference by using microprocessors to compare successive image frames. By subtracting random elements that appear on one frame but not the other, the circuitry removes snow before it shows up on the screen...
Snap judgments emerged as quickly as the images last week, when TV took over the national stage for an extraordinary display of video diplomacy and politicking. On Monday the American public got its first extended look at General Secretary Gorbachev, in an hour-long prime-time interview conducted by NBC Anchorman Tom Brokaw. The following night all twelve Democratic and Republican presidential candidates gathered for the first time to engage in a two-hour debate, again moderated by Brokaw. President Reagan snared his own half-hour of prime time on Thursday, answering questions from four TV anchormen in a session...