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14 unusual facts about broadcasting


2003–04 Montreal Canadiens season

The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation television broadcast also set the record for most viewers of a single NHL game with 2.747 million nationwide.

Bet On Soldier: Blood Sport

These deathmatches are broadcast all over the world as a televised sport named "Bet On Soldier", and since has become the favorite form of entertainment with many viewers betting on soldiers.

Elisabeta Polihroniade

Polihroniade is a journalist and broadcaster, with her own daily radio programme on contemporary culture.

Elvin Penner

Following a cabinet reshuffling in March 2009, Penner transitioned to the Ministry of Public Utilities, Information and Broadcasting.

MAFOR

Each MAFOR broadcast is followed by a brief technical synopsis of the current weather map in plain language.

Næstved

Næstved has numerous local media, from newspapers to daily television broadcasts.

NJN News

NJN News was a half-hour daily broadcast television news program by the New Jersey Network which also aired in New York City on WNET Monday through Friday.

Ross Rebagliati

On August 2, 2006 Rebagliati filed suit against Canadian television broadcaster CTV.

Sydney Victor Colville

Sydney (Syd) Victor Colville (22 March 1894 – 1966) was an Australian broadcast pioneer who, in 1914, established the Queensland Wireless Institute.

Synthetic personality

A synthetic personality is a constructed, friendly, approachable persona, often used in broadcast media.

The Warren Brothers

Also that year, McGraw performed "If You're Reading This" at the Academy of Country Music awards, and released that song as a single after radio stations began playing a telecast of the song.

World Area Forecast Center

A World Area Forecast Centre (WAFC) is a meteorological centre that provides real-time meteorological information broadcasts for aviation purposes.

Xernona Clayton

She became corporate vice president for urban affairs for Turner Broadcasting.

Young London into Music

The project aims to foster links between participants and record labels, publishers, promoters, broadcasters, producers and artists; in addition to instilling self-confidence and professional work experience to all its youth contributors.


1989 in radio

November 13 – London Greek Radio, one of the United Kingdom's first all-ethnic radio stations, begins broadcasting.

Air1 Radio 91.9 FM Southern Luzon

Focusing chiefly on radio broadcasting (Air1 FM Southern Luzon), the company positioned its broadcast coverage in a densely populated cluster in the region which is Southern Luzon.

Andy Bird

Bird first started his career in broadcasting as one of Timmy Mallett's helpers on Manchester's Piccadilly Radio.

Approaches to evangelism

Large Christian television networks such as the Catholic broadcasting channel EWTN or the Protestant televangelism channel Trinity Broadcasting Network feature many televangelist preachers.

Austin Arts BBS

Eventually, the station was moved to the Internet when broadcasting became more commonplace with services like Live365.

BASICODE

The project was initiated in 1980 by Hobbyscoop, a radio program off the Netherlands broadcasting organisation Nederlandse Omroep Stichting (NOS).

Bregenzer Festspiele

Over April and May 2008, scenes for the 22nd James Bond film Quantum of Solace were filmed on the Seebühne during a performance of Tosca and in June 2008 the German broadcasting corporation ZDF hosted its 2008 European Football Championship live broadcast studio on the floating stage.

Classical 24

WNIU, broadcasting from Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, Illinois, is another full power FM that carries Classical 24 on a full-time basis.

Felice Chiusano

He successfully auditioned for EIAR, the Italian national radio broadcasting company, and worked as a singer for the various radio orchestras.

Fiji Television

It was founded on 15 June 1994 as the first permanent commercial television broadcasting network in the country, although television had previously been introduced temporarily in October 1991 to broadcast the Rugby World Cup as well as Cricket World Cup.

François Pérusse

He received the last 3 annual Ruban d'or from the Canadian Association of Broadcasters in the humour category, which are amongst the most prestigious of the awards for radio broadcasting in Canada.

George Dunham

Dunham started his professional broadcasting career at KRLD working as a sports reporter for Brad Sham and Chuck Cooperstein.

Helen Stoumbos

After injury curtailed Stoumbos' playing career, she moved into television broadcasting, working on football coverage from Sportsnet, CBC Sports and GolTV.

James E. Rogers

He was the founder of Valley Broadcasting Company in 1971 and has served as the company's chief executive officer since 1979 on KVBC-TV (now KSNV-DT), the NBC affiliate in Las Vegas, The station went on the air as KLRJ-TV on channel 2 on January 23, 1955, licensed to Henderson and owned by the Donrey Media Group (now Stephens Media LLC) along with the Las Vegas Review-Journal and KORK radio (920 AM; now KBAD).

Jon Sciambi

As Sciambi attended Boston College, he began his sportscasting experience on WZBC, the school's 1000-watt FM radio station broadcasting to the Greater Boston area.

Kabakumba Masiko

In November 2011, members of the Uganda Police Force, acting on a tip-off, confiscated a radio transmitter and a radio mast from the premises of Kings Broadcasting Sercvice (KBS), in the town of Masindi, in Western Uganda.

KFFV

The station is owned by OTA Broadcasting, LLC, a company controlled by Michael Dell's MSD Capital.

KJNP

KJNP is a broadcasting call sign, standing for King Jesus North Pole.

KOLD-TV

Gannett had owned the Tucson Citizen since 1977, and FCC regulations of the time forced Gannett to sell KOLD along with KTVY (now KFOR-TV) in Oklahoma City and WALA-TV in Mobile, Alabama to Knight Ridder Broadcasting after just one day of ownership.

KTAB-TV

Shamrock Broadcasting, Roy E. Disney's broadcasting company, bought the station from the Terry group in the late 1980s, then sold it to Shooting Star Broadcasting in 1997.

KTMD

The station first signed on the air in the spring of 1988, broadcasting on UHF channel 48 from a transmitter located east of Farm to Market Road 528 south of Friendswood.

KWCE-LP

It is owned by Pollack/Belz Broadcasting Company (owner of KLAX-TV), and is an affiliate of the Retro Television Network.

KYVV-TV

KYVV-TV is a Spanish-language television station in Del Rio, Texas, broadcasting locally on digital channel 28 as an affiliate of MundoFox.

Lebanon in the Eurovision Song Contest

The country's broadcasting organization, Télé Liban, was set to make the country's debut at the Eurovision Song Contest 2005 with the song "Quand tout s'enfuit" performed by Aline Lahoud, but withdrew due to Lebanon's laws barring the broadcast of Israeli content.

MediaWorks

SPH MediaWorks, a broadcasting company based in Singapore that was merged into MediaCorp

Molomix

It also includes two new songs "El Carnal de las Estrellas", which is an attack to the Mexican broadcasting company Televisa after its denial to run their music videos, and "Rap, Soda y Bohemia" (their version of "Bohemian Rhapsody"), which was also included on a compilation album titled, "Tributo a Queen" It also includes two videos, listed as songs 11 and 12.

Near East Broadcasting Station

The Near East Broadcasting Station (also Sharq-el-Adna, Voice of Britain) started broadcasting in Arabic in 1941/1942 from Jaffa, Mandate of Palestine.

NRJ Group

With its pan-European NRJ/ENERGY stations, the Paris-based NRJ Group has challenged the European radio market by being significantly different from diversifying market players like the Luxembourg-based RTL Group (Antenne Bayern, RTL Berlin, Yorin FM), and SBS Broadcasting (Radio 1 Norway, The Voice) or Stockholm-based MTG (P4 Norway, Rix FM, Lugna Favoriter).

Pledge drive

Although the federal government of the United States, primarily through the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), and corporate underwriting provide some money for public broadcasting organizations like National Public Radio (NPR) and the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), they are largely dependent on program fees paid by their member stations.

Power Without Responsibility

Power Without Responsibility (subtitled: The Press and Broadcasting in Britain or Press, Broadcasting and the Internet in Britain) is a book written by James Curran (Professor of Communications at Goldsmiths College) and Jean Seaton (Professor of Media History at the University of Westminster).

Raszyn radio transmitter

The longwave transmitter Raszyn is a longwave broadcasting transmitter near Raszyn, Poland.

Richard Deverell

In March 2009 Deverell was named chief operating officer of the BBC's new broadcasting and production centre in Salford Quays.

Rogers Communications

While Ted Rogers was an articling student with Tory, Tory, DesLauriers & Binnington, he started Rogers Radio Broadcasting Limited, which acquired Canada's pioneer FM station, CHFI-FM.

Ronn Owens

Owens began his career in broadcasting in 1968 after graduating from Temple University.

Royal Parker

He began his broadcasting career in the late 1940s on WASA (now WJSS), an AM radio station in Havre de Grace, Maryland, hosting a music program called the Royal Record Review.

Sabras Radio

Although the majority of the schedule is presented in Hindi and English - there are speciality shows broadcasting in Bengali, Gujarati and Punjabi.

Sing, Baby, Sing

When she insists that he represent her, he takes her to Mr. Brewster (Paul Stanton), president of the Federal Broadcasting Company, and Joan auditions, but Brewster refuses to hire her because she is not of the upper class.

Sticky-shed syndrome

Dr. John Van Bogart at the National Media Laboratory has recommended the process, as well as the tape manufacturer Ampex, the sound recording industry magazine, Mix, the Association of Moving Image Archivists and the American Folklife Center and the Motion Picture, Broadcasting & Recorded Sound Division of the Library of Congress.

Sudan – South Sudan Border War

On 15 April 2012, according to IRIB World Service, an Iran Broadcasting channel, Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast said that Iran fully monitors the developments in the region, and calls on South Sudan to immediately and unconditionally pull back its forces and return to its territory behind the designated borders.

The Crests

In January 2014, Carter interviewed with broadcasting legend Joe Franklin on the Bloomberg Radio network.

The Superstation Orkney

The Superstation started broadcasting under a 3 month trial Restricted Service Licence awarded by Ofcom on Saturday September 4, 2004, from the MV Communicator, berthed at St Margaret's Hope.

Tom Carnegie

While living in Waterloo, Iowa, Carnegie would listen to radio broadcasts of a young Ronald Reagan and credits Reagan with being one of his main broadcasting inspirations and influences.

Topolná transmitter

The Topolná transmitter (Czech: RKS Topolná) is the central longwave broadcasting facility of the Czech Republic situated westward of the village Topolná at the Morava River.

Vysílač Krašov

Vysílač Krašov (Krašov transmitter, Zapadni-Cechy transmitter) is a facility for TV-broadcasting in near Bezvěrov in Carlsbad Region, in Czech Republic with 347,5 metre tall guyed mast (former mast was 305 m tall).

Warren Boland

He now presents weekend radio shows called "Weekends with Warren" on ABC Local Radio stations across Queensland, Australia, broadcasting from the studios of 612 ABC Brisbane.

WAY

WAYM, a non-commercial Contemporary Christian music-format FM radio station broadcasting to the Nashville, Tennessee market

Wendy Coakley-Thompson

Coakley-Thompson has a BA in Speech and Theater (Broadcasting) from Montclair State College in Upper Montclair, New Jersey; an MA in Communication Arts from William Paterson College in Wayne, New Jersey; and a PhD in Education (Instructional Design, Development, and Evaluation) from Syracuse University in Syracuse, New York.

WLAP

Jordan reportedly started broadcasting phonograph records to patients at Waverly Hills Hospital in 1921.

WLKT

WLKT, also known as 104.5 The Cat, is a Mainstream Top 40 station broadcasting in Lexington, Kentucky.

Wojciech Cejrowski

One of its results was a contract with American ABC Network - since 1992 all Polish local broadcasting stations had started to broadcast Polish version of American Country Countdown.