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In the News (Fri 18 Dec 09)

  
 Division Reports - Broadcast Television
TV's biggest single advertiser, General Motors Corporation, was on strike during the summer of 1998 and cancelled its advertising.
The station's transmitting tower was replaced during the year, a considerable engineering feat.
Despite it all, the expanded TV group continues to be an excellent diversification strategy and profitable business for Freedom.
www.freedom.com /company/ann98/broadcast.htm   (745 words)

  
 TV Broadcasting History - Various Articles
TV coverage of the 1964 conventions is best remembered for three incidents, two of which can now be considered laughable, the third causing a short-lived national scandal.
Later moon landings would feature color TV pictures from the moon, and towards the end of the Apollo program, spectacular live color TV transmissions of the upper half of the lunar landing craft (the lower half stayed on the lunar surface) taking off to rejoin the mother ship which had remained in lunar orbit.
In March of 1964, a new transmitter and tower were completed in Needham (a suburb just west of Boston; the city's other TV stations were already transmitting from there), and three years later, the old fl-and-white cameras were replaced by color cameras.
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 Rhode Island news | projo.com | The Providence Journal | Business
WLNE Channel 6 suffered an equipment failure Wednesday afternoon, knocking the station off the air for 32 1/2 hours, the longest outage in its history.
Channel 6 was dark only for television viewers who pick up TV signals with a traditional antenna.
Channel 6 discovered a problem with its antenna tower, located in Tiverton, about two weeks ago, she said.
www.projo.com /business/content/projo_20050507_wlne07x.1f5ef82.html   (747 words)

  
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The seminar was addressed by Cha Sung-su, chairman of the Radio and TV Broadcasting Committee of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, and Ro Song-dae, chairman of the Radio and TV Broadcasting Committee of South Korea.
Speakers said that the seminar marked a meeting to be significantly recorded in the history of the North-South broadcasting as it was the common results achieved by the broadcasters of the North and South in their efforts for national reconciliation, unity and reunification.
TV programmes were introduced by broadcasting organizations in the North and the South on the same day.
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 Broadcasting & Cable: The Business of Television 03/03/2003 Table of Contents
Otherwise in journalism—I mean outside TV journalism-- there are big stories about the editor and publisher of the Los Angeles Times defying their corporate owners, Tribune Co., which wants the paper to...
With a $6 billion price tag to pay over the next 11 years for a rights package to 22 National Collegiate Athletic Association sports, CBS has embarked on an ambitious program to get blue-chip advertisers to buy into a two-pronged strategy of marketing sponsorships and on-air advertising.
Florence, notes one TV executive in the Florence-Myrtle Beach market, is a city in Italy; Myrtle Beach is a destination for tourists and for advertisers.
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 AVS Forum - Providence, RI - HDTV   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
However, WLNE ABC6 was able to get FCC approval to co-locate with WJAR in Rehoboth, MA in January 2002 as a tenant at WJAR's transmission facility in that locale.
WLNE is slightly stronger than WJAR which is surprising since the FCC info on WJAR DT indicates 974 KW and only 240 to 350 KW for WLNE DT.
Benji - your correct - 6, 10 and 36 (when it comes on) share a tower, 12 and 64 (when it comes on) are on a seperate tower.
www.avsforum.com /avs-vb/archive/index.php/t-265419.html   (14280 words)

  
 RadioDXer.com-->WNET-TV, Channel 16, Providence, RI
Eventually they would be changed to Channels 10 and 12 due to interference from the "local oscillators" in some Motorola TV's when they were tuned to Boston VHF stations.
Motorola was a major TV manufacturer in TV's Golden Age.
But by the time Channel 64 hit the air, "over-the-air" subscription TV was a dead issue due to cable's amazing growth by that time.
www.geocities.com /Athens/Olympus/3514/wnet.html   (733 words)

  
 Providence, Rhode Island   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
The largest structure, to date, is the art-deco-styled former Industrial Trust Tower, currently the Bank of America Building at 426 feet (130 m).
The Textron Tower is also a core building to the Providence skyline.
The USDA rates the city at Zone 6, which is an "in-between" climate.
www.millvalleycaus.com /section/Providence,_Rhode_Island   (4537 words)

  
 Associated Press:ENPS
TV 2/Bornholm, one of eight regional stations in the TV 2/Denmark network and the first broadcast organization outside the BBC to implement ENPS, today marks its 1,000th day using the system.
STAR TV, Asia's leading subscription and free-to-air satellite television company, moves to ENPS beginning in March, first in the newsroom of STAR World, its English language channel, at its Broadcasting Centre located at Clearwater Bay in Kowloon, Hong Kong.
STAR TV is a subsidiary of The News Corporation Limited and reaches more than 300 million viewers across Asia, India and the Middle East.
www.enps.com /news/index.aspx   (11135 words)

  
 TheProvidenceChannel.com: WBZ-TV CBS 4
5 December 1947 - A demonstration of TV is given to the Boston media; the Joe Louis vs.Jersey Joe Walcott fight is picked up from New York and shown at the WBZ studios in the Bradford Hotel.
As stores that sell TVs promise to stay open late, WBZ-TV goes on the air at 10 AM with two hours of test patterns, then signs off, returns in the late afternoon with more test patterns.
Eyewitness News from 6 to 6.30, NBC News (Huntley/Brinkley) from 6.30 to 7, and then back to WBZ with an expanded local newscast, featuring Arch MacDonald, Terry Carter, Bob Lape, Shelby Scott, and others.
www.theprovidencechannel.com /wbz/history.htm   (4586 words)

  
 Rhode Island news | projo.com | The Providence Journal | Business
Under Chapman's leadership, Lin TV grew from a small television company with seven stations to one of the largest media companies in the country, with 30.
Chapman joined Rhode Island's television industry in 1979, when he was named general manager of WLNE Channel 6, a post he held for five years.
Pulitzer groomed him to become a general manager of one of its television stations, Chapman said, and the job at Pulitzer's WLNE in Providence was the first opening that arose.
www.projo.com /business/content/projo_20060615_lin15.91ba0.html   (1253 words)

  
 The DuMont Television Network: Channel Thirteen
He had purchased a TV set in the late 1940's, (and) had to have lined with foil so that it would not interfere with radio reception.
The wind also severely damaged the KDKA tower, and emergency reinforcing was added to the tower to buy time to get the present guyed tower built.
The original tower (originally 500 feet) was later taken down to the 125 foot level, where it stands today.
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 North East RadioWatch: November 20, 1998
As for the TV and radio coverage, it sounds like WEEI broke this one on radio Wednesday, with all the stations in both markets jumping on board by the evening newscasts.
One more bit of Connecticut news before we move on: The folks at WTNH in New Haven are getting around to marking their 50th anniversary (no hurry, apparently, seeing as how they signed on in June, 1948!) and are looking for station veterans, old film and videotape, and newspaper clippings about WTNH and WNHC-TV.
His new project, American Tower Corp., made some headlines this week with two big acquisitions: the $336 million purchase of OmniAmerica and the $185 million buy of Telecom Towers.
www.bostonradio.org /nerw/nerw-981120.html   (1291 words)

  
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Indicate location of tower or antenna, primary and secondary headends, boundaries of cable districts, and expected paths of system's trunk lines.
Also indicate applicant's best estimate as to the time in which construction will be completed and subscriber service available in each segment of the area to be served.
Number of usable TV channels: MediaOne proposes a cable communications system capable of seventy-seven (77) channels of video programming and additional bandwidth reserved for future use.
www.mass.gov /dte/catv/Form100/Berkley-l00.doc   (3502 words)

  
 Too Much News? | Oregon Media Insiders
I could name examples from all the other news programs, (noon, 5, 6, 10 and 11) since do the same thing.
I was stunned, because they had KGW on from 5pm.
Stephanie Wright is office manager for a firm in the Broadway Tower.
www.oregonmediainsiders.com /node/336   (2208 words)

  
 Anchor Rising
Congressman Patrick Kennedy ends his first TV ad saying that he “will never stop fighting for you”.
In the interim between the Flight 11’s assault on the north tower and Flight 175’s upon the south tower, my coworkers went back to work and I was left alone at the tv completely stunned and worried that the north tower might collapse.
I went through many calculations in my head and believed that whatever caused the hole in the north tower had done so at a perfect point for it to cause the tower to collapse.
www.anchorrising.com   (13801 words)

  
 NorthEast Radio Watch by Scott Fybush
Jeff Derderian is a familiar name and face to TV viewers in eastern New England.
On the TV side, the FCC granted a license to cover this week for WHDN-LP (Channel 26), a new Boston LPTV licensed to one Guenter Marksteiner of Florida.
The station held a CP to go from its present flea power (just enough to get to a receiver south of Buffalo that feeds area cable systems by fiber) to a full 5 megawatts; that CP expired at the end of 2002.
www.fybush.com /nerw-030224.html   (1986 words)

  
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Boston Television (Nextel is now used very heavily by all the Boston TV stations)
Note: CVB has made so many changes with their radio system over the last few years that I am very unsure of their current channel plan now.
This just in (1/2/04) it appears that the channel 4 repeater on 450.4125R has been repaired and is working at full power again.
www.scanboston.com /media.htm   (953 words)

  
 NorthEast Radio Watch by Scott Fybush
And on the TV front, WPXG-DT (Channel 33) in Concord is granted its license to cover.
Just as in past years, the calendar features a dozen spiffy 8.5-by-11 inch full-color images of tower sites from across the nation - everything from Washington's WTEM to New York's WCBS/WFAN to Los Angeles' KHJ to WCTM in Eaton, Ohio.
Unlike last year, this year's calendar will feaure heavier paper (no more curling!) and will be shipped shrink-wrapped on a cardboard backing to make sure it arrives in pristine condition.
www.fybush.com /nerw-031020.html   (1502 words)

  
 Cranston News
On Tuesday night, Michael T. Napolitano was brimming with confidence, shaking hands inside his campaign headquarters to sustained applause as his theme song, "Ain't No Stopping Us Now," played repeatedly on a...
Crews work overtime to finish Westin tower addition by July
Working to finish its addition to The Westin Providence hotel by July, The Procaccianti Group poured concrete for the 18th floor of its condominium high-rise yesterday and recently finished pouring all the...
www.topix.net /city/cranston-ri   (636 words)

  
 An Afternoon Spent With the D* SV Tool - SatelliteGuys.US
WVVA, 6, Bluefield, WV WFMY-TV, 2, Greensboro, NC WGHP, 8, Greensboro, NC WXII, 12, Greensboro, NC Hampton-Newport News and Hampton City and Newport News City and Poquoson City
WUND-TV, 2, Edenton, NC WTVR-TV, 6, Richmond, VA WRIC-TV, 8, Richmond, VA WWBT, 12, Richmond, VA Mecklenburg
WTVR-TV, 6, Richmond, VA WRIC-TV, 8, Richmond, VA (D* carries to part of the county)
www.satelliteguys.us /showthread.php?t=62386   (1621 words)

  
 Converted from "4494.txt"   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
I'll put my Masters Degree and decade plus of experience against any immaculately coiffed TV blonde with a tiny waist any day.
We can do it faster and usually more intelligently than TV.
Radio Newsers aren't hired for their hair and make-up, but for their minds, voices, and ability to quickly adapt to any situation and ad-lib the details as they happen to listeners who hang on every word, because there are no pictures to use as a crutch.
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 antenna/HD newbie question CT area - High Def Forum - Your High Definition Community & High Definition Resource
violet - vhf WLNE 6 ABC NEW BEDFORD MA 113° 38.0 6
Also (this is where I will start to sound really ignorant) I have an HD compatible TV and I would like to purchase an HD receiver but I would like to know if I would be able to watch any HD channels without subscribing to any service like HD digital cable or a satellite provider?
Any help from you experts would be apprecited.
www.highdefforum.com /showthread.php?t=5108   (2237 words)

  
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 Navy/Marine Corps News - 1999 Program Hi Lites
The crew of USS John C. Stennis becomes a Hollywood set for the TV show "JAG"
FOCUS ON THE FLEET: Kirstin Cole of WSYX Channel 6 in Columbus, Ohio goes aboard USS George Washington during flight operations in the Atlantic
Focus on the Fleet: Ed Hughes of W-T-K-R TV in Norfolk, Virginia reports on Marine Corps "TRAP" rescue teams aboard USS Kearsarge
www.mediacen.navy.mil /tv/nmcn/1999.htm   (8623 words)

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