Word: network
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...television in South Viet Nam, not only to advance the struggle against the Communists, but also to contribute to the all-important task of "nation building." A few months later, two electronics-crammed Super Constellations beamed the first broadcast while circling over Saigon. Said one of the new network's Vietnamese bosses: "This is a better weapon than...
THVN is never less than 150% progovernment. Lieut. Colonel Le Van Duyen, the man in charge of the network and its modest, $375,000-a-year budget, is also Saigon's director of propaganda. He is convinced that "the best propaganda is TV." The network's U.S. advisers, an eleven-man group on loan from NBC International, are due to be phased out next spring under a sort of video Vietnamization program...
Much as we would like to pour 500,000 people into Washington this weekend to shut down that city, the movement has neither the leadership, the organization, nor the network of news dissemination to make such a protest effective...
...songs have sold more than a million copies. Yet the Archie studio is skilled enough to do some sparkling letter "commercials" for Sesame Street. Studio Head Norman Prescott, who has learned that you can have your buck and pass it, too, explains: "It all starts and ends with the network. We might prefer to teach, but nobody is buying that from...
...spent in newspapers, up from the present $16 million. American Cancer Society officials recently appealed to publishers for free space for antismoking ads similar to those that the Federal Communications Commission now requires on television. Cancer Society spokesmen say they expect the television spots to continue after January; network officials are still unsure. There will be a fast increase in spending on outdoor billboard ads, which tobaccomen figure are less likely than print ads to draw Government fire. Tobacco's spending on billboards could jump from an average of $7 million a year to $40 million next year, reports...