Word: broadcasting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...from the media and the police. Gwen Stinson's mother notified local police when she became aware of her daughter's uncharacteristic absence. When they failed to respond to her plea for assistance, Mrs. Stinson contacted as many newspapers and radio stations as she could and urged them to broadcast descriptions of her missing daughter. Only The Boston Globe and WBZN radio agreed to her request. Upon learning of the death of the third woman, Mrs. Stinson led a protest to the mayor's office...
...Mets fans loved him. Despite his endless, needless journeys up and down the range of audible sound, despite his awkward promos for Ball Day and Banner Day, and despite the resolute sameness to every Nelson broadcast, he was always the Mets, that most flawed of baseball teams...
...presently have available evidence that would enable me to judge whether or not former Senator Clark's findings are correct, nor perhaps do more than 90 per cent of those who heard Professor Nolan at the Faculty meeting and on the live radio broadcast of that meeting. This being the case, it is misleading for Professor Nolan to have given this document more standing than it deserves, more standing than its author claims for it. Arthur Maass Professor of Government
Thirty percent of the audience-or a 30 share, in broadcast jargon-is usually considered respectable. A share is the percent of the people watching television who are tuned in to a show. It indicates how well the show is doing against the others in its time slot. If the people in 50 million households are watching TV on Thursday night at 8, and 25 million are tuned in to Mork & Mindy, the program would have a 50 share. A rating, on the other hand, is the percentage of all the 74 million households in the country that have...
...force in a matter of weeks, found Uganda's army surprisingly weak. When Amin ordered a counteroffensive late in January, it failed so ignominiously that even the usually resourceful Radio Uganda could find little to praise. When the poorly supplied Ugandans ran out of ammunition, one spirited broadcast reported, Amin's troops eagerly engaged in "boxing and wrestling" with the Tanzanians...