Word: wor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Another source of programming for basic cable is the superstations-independent broadcast-TV stations that also lease space on Satcom, whose signals bounce to the earth stations of cable systems all over the country. At present there are four: WTCG in Atlanta, WOR in New York, WON in Chicago and KTVU in the San Francisco-Oakland area. They and their cable customers should benefit especially from the FCC'S proposal last week that cable operators be permitted to pick up as many signals as they like from anywhere, and a companion proposal that cable companies be permitted...
...were, he would know that the season had officially changed when the slightly southern, slightly nasal and slightly canine voice of Lindsey Nelson returned to WOR...
...show hosts whose early specialty was interviewing hypnotists, UFO freaks and sundry other pitchmen of the occult; of cancer; in Manhattan. An eighth-grade dropout with a quicksilver tongue, Long John (6 ft. 5 in.) worked as carnival huckster, mind reader and auctioneer before going on Manhattan's WOR in 1956. Indefatigable, he came to command 42 hours of air time a week on WNBC, more than any other host in radio history...
Gardner has set himself roles wor thy of Hercules or a one-man band: the hilarious spoofer of pulp fiction, the composer of Kierkegaardian monologues good and evil, the mini-historian of science, progress and civilization, and the pastoral poet. In addition he rounds off his complex work on a note of affirmation that the reader may find more determined than logical, like the highnote climax to a trumpet solo. For the hyphen that Gardner most ardently longs for is the one that might connect night to day, lost to found, chaos to order-all the enemies, all the opposites...
They have managed to outlast most of their original targets without even be ginning to run out of material - a fact which they are currently demonstrating every weekday afternoon on radio station WOR in New York City...