Word: simulcast
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Paranoia, Political paranoia, the kind you get when you see a fascist behind every rock. I know quite a few people who count themselves as politically active, and to a man (or woman) they're all a touch paranoid. But to call Alice Cooper and their ABC-WBCN simulcast a harbinger of creeping facism, as Andrew Kopkind did in last week's Phoenix, strikes me as so much hysterical over-reacting...
This concerns Alice Cooper and the simulcast insofar as both media are visual. Kopkind's complaint is not so much over the simulcast as it is with Alice Cooper's particular appearance on it. (If he finds creeping fascism in the Allman Brother's brilliant performance last week, then he's in worse shape than I gave him credit for), On the highest level, his major complaint is with Alice Cooper's performance, and what he assumes is gratuitous violence similar to that displayed in the films. More on that later...
...call for a drastic gesture. Beset by a giveaway program on rival NBC (The Price Is Right), Arthur Godfrey was fighting back with a giveaway of his own-in which winners would get anything "reasonable" they asked for-plus a new format that scraps his old 60-minute simulcast for an hour of radio followed by a half-hour of straight TV. After a decade, it was his first concession that TV is a visual medium...
...Voice became the first commercial musical simulcast (radio and TV), last summer discontinued its radio portion because "we could get more for our money...
...Blip blop bleeeeep," returned the voice over the CBS radio-TV "simulcast" from 6,000 miles away. "Who wants me to week wawk come home bureeek...