At least two non-commercial FM stations, the community-based WGDR in Plainfield, Vermont and its sister station, WGDH in Hardwick, Vermont ( both owned by Goddard College ), broadcast a weekly, two-hour " Quiet Storm " program -— a 50-50 mix of smooth jazz and soft R & B, presented in " Triple-A " ( Album Adult Alternative ) style, with a strong emphasis on " B " and " C " album tracks that most commercial stations often ignore.

Along with NBC programming, the Crosley / Avco stations in Ohio and Indianapolis also aired common programming, including The Paul Dixon Show, Midwestern Hayride, The Ruth Lyons 50-50 Club ( later to become The Bob Braun Show ), The Phil Donahue Show, and telecasts of Cincinnati Reds baseball.

He noted that he finished with " a Test bowling average that is better than Sir Richard Hadlee's ( 22. 29 ), and a 50-50 record in the end-of-series running race.

Aside from Paul Dixon's weekday morning show, other Cincinnati-based programming that aired on WLWD included: The 50-50 Club, hosted by Ruth Lyons ( hosted by Bob Braun after Lyons ' 1967 retirement ), and the Saturday evening country music program Midwestern Hayride.

A social conservative (" I'm against smut ," he declared ), Overmyer began to produce his own programs, and decided to create a nationwide hookup, enticing existing stations with a 50-50 profit split with potential affiliates ( something that the established network's affiliates had been trying to get from ABC, CBS and NBC for years ).

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Most of these shows were produced at the WLWT studios on Crosley Square, and they included The Ruth Lyons 50-50 Club ( later hosted by Bob Braun after Lyons ' retirement in 1967 ), the Paul Dixon Show, and Midwestern Hayride.

Jeffords's change of party status was especially significant because it shifted the Senate composition from 50-50 between the Republicans and Democrats ( with a Republican Vice President, Dick Cheney, who would presumably break all ties in favor of the Republicans ), to 49 Republicans, 50 Democrats, and one Independent.

Similarly to some other alternative music labels, such as Factory Records in the UK and punk label Dischord Records in the US, Touch and Go pursued a relaxed approach to recording contracts, characterized by handshake deals providing for a 50-50 split of profits between artist and label after promotion and production costs.

In recent years, Mega Channel has overtaken its main rival ANT1 as the most popular channel in Greece, largely due to hit shows like 50-50, Sto Para Pente ' and Savvatogennimenes.

However due to allegations of election fraud they divided the seats 50-50 and created a unity government.

In the 1960s the company started its film distribution business ( once a 50-50 joint venture with Greater Union ) and moved into film production in the 1970s.

CNBC's international channels were then merged into a 50-50 joint venture with their Dow Jones-owned rivals, London-based EBN ( European Business News ) and Singapore-sited ABN ( Asia Business News ) in 1998, while ratings grew on the U. S. channel until the new millennium's dot-com bubble burst in 2000.

Under the law as it existed until 1943, the Federal Government made grants to the States on the basis of population, matching State expenditures on a 50-50 basis.

An affected person mating with a heterozygous individual ( Aa or aA, also carrier ) there is a 50-50 chance the offspring will be albino's phenotype.

This woman has a normal phenotype, but runs a 50-50 chance, with an unaffected partner, of passing her abnormal gene on to her offspring.

The Senate vote fell short of the necessary 2 / 3 needed to remove him from office, voting 45-55 to remove him on obstruction of justice and 50-50 on perjury.

Subsequently both the statehood faction and the commonwealth shared control on a 50-50 basis from 1984 to 1988 and lost control that year as a result of their defeat in an internal primary that year between PDP forces led by then Senate president Miguel Hernández Agosto and NPP forces led by former Gov.

The Monty Hall paradox demonstrates that a decision which has an intuitive 50-50 chance in fact is heavily biased towards making a decision which, given the intuitive conclusion, the player would be unlikely to make.

If the automatic is placed in reverse or first gear, the transmission divides the torque 50-50 to both front and rear wheels.

But oil history was made in 1943 when Standard Oil of New Jersey accepted a new agreement in Venezuela based on the 50-50 principle, " a landmark event.

For example, in the first half of 2001, the Senators were divided 50-50 between Republicans and Democrats and Dick Cheney's tie-breaking vote gave the Republicans the Senate majority.

Great for 50-50 grinds, nose presses and tail presses.

Mattei forged agreements with Tunisia and Morocco, to which he offered a 50-50 partnership for extracting their oil, very different from the sort of concessions normally offered by the major oil companies.

The conclusion Fields reached is that the probability that the princes were, in fact, murdered is about 50 % to 70 %, and if they were, the probability that Richard did it is in the same range, so the logical probability that Richard is guilty is 25 % to 49 %, which is less than 50-50.

William Randolph Hearst, who had long wanted Foster to do a comic strip for his newspapers, was so impressed with Foster's pitch for Prince Valiant that he promised Foster a 50-50 split of the gross income on the strip, a very rare offer in those days.

Blees was responsible for the construction of several of the town's commercial buildings and the town's first sewage system ; founded the local horseless carriage factory, the first theater, and the First National Bank of Macon, and he financed the paving of the town's streets on a 50-50 basis with the city.

After the 2000 elections produced a 50-50 partisan split in the Senate, Vice President Al Gore's tie-breaking vote gave the Democrats the majority from January 3 to January 20, 2001, when George W. Bush took office and Vice President Dick Cheney's tie-breaking vote gave the Republicans the majority once again.

He was told he had a 50-50 chance of ever talking or singing normally again.

Usually a 50-50 chance scenario is adopted at the start of a match in order to determine who should serve first ( e. g. one player puts the ball behind their back and their opponent guesses which hand it's in ).

Karelian Trains, a 50-50 joint venture between Finnish VR and Russian Railways, operates four 1522 mm gauge seven-car Pendolinos for use on 220 km / h Saint Petersburg – Helsinki services.

In this situation, any crossover events would result in an exchange of genes, but only an odd number of crossover events ( a 50-50 chance between even and odd number of crossover events ) would result in a recombinant product of meiotic crossover.

Clearing Corp. shareholders including JPMorgan Chase & Co., Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and UBS AG, received $ 39 million in cash from Intercontinental in the acquisition, as well as the Clearing Corp .’ s cash on hand and a 50-50 profit-sharing agreement with Intercontinental on the revenue generated from processing the swaps.

* Animals ( comedy ), a stand-up show written and performed by Ricky Gervais

Among many roles in his career, Arau has played " Captain Herrera ", a lieutenant of Federal general " Mapache ", in Sam Peckinpah's 1969 western, The Wild Bunch, chief bandit " El Guapo " in Three Amigos ( USA, 1986 ), a comedy with Martin Short, Steve Martin, and Chevy Chase, and the smuggler " Juan " in Romancing the Stone which starred Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner.

Sólo con tu pareja was a sex comedy about a womanizing businessman ( played by Daniel Giménez Cacho ), who after spurning an attractive nurse, is fooled into believing he's contracted HIV.

This uneven work was followed by another popular comedic success La locandiera ( Mine Hostess ), an adaptation of the classic and popular spoken stage comedy La locandiera by Carlo Goldoni, the libretto was prepared by Domenico Poggi.

* Arrested Development ( TV series ), a Fox Network comedy

The world of musical comedy ( Edition 4, 1984 ), Da Capo Press, ISBN 0-306-80207-4

After two successful comedy albums, Comedy Minus One ( 1973 ) and the Grammy Award-nominated A Star Is Bought ( 1975 ), Brooks left the stand-up circuit to try his hand as a filmmaker ; his first film, The Famous Comedians School, was a satiric short that appeared on PBS and was an early example of the mockumentary sub-genre.

She played bit parts in three English-language films, the British comedy Doctor at Sea ( 1955 ) with Dirk Bogarde, Helen of Troy ( 1954 ), in which she was understudy for the title role but appears only as Helen's handmaid, and Act of Love ( 1954 ) with Kirk Douglas.

* Blitz ( character ), a fictional anthropomorphic doberman from the action / comedy cartoon Road Rovers

* Blody Mary ( 1996 film ), a 1996 comedy film

The Kid ( 1921 film ) | The Kid ( 1921 ), with Jackie Coogan, combined comedy with drama and was Chaplin's first film to exceed an hour.

Some examples of the screwball comedy are: It Happened One Night ( 1934 ), Bringing Up Baby ( 1938 ), Philadelphia Story ( 1940 ), His Girl Friday ( 1940 ), and more recently What's Up, Doc?

Another style of comedy horror can also rely on over the top violence and gore such as in Dead Alive ( 1992 ), Evil Dead ( 1981 ), and Club Dread-such films are sometimes known as splatstick, a portmanteau of the words splatter and slapstick.

Dr. Strangelove ( 1964 ) was a satirical comedy about Cold War paranoia, while The Apartment ( 1960 ), Alfie ( 1966 ) and The Graduate ( 1967 ) featured sexual themes in a way that would have been impossible only a few years previously.

Writer / director Todd Solondz, a favorite cult director, had his first major success with the black comedy Welcome to the Dollhouse ( 1995 ), a brutally-honest look at the persecution of a young junior high student by her classmates.

Since the turn of the millennium, notable successes among cult and midnight movies have been Donnie Darko ( 2001 ), the 2001 comedy Wet Hot American Summer, an absurdist parody of the pre-MTV summer camp genre, and the comic book adaptation Ghost World.

Charles has acted in episodes of popular dramas such as The Bill ( 1995 ), EastEnders ( 2002 ) and Holby City ( 2003 ) and in the comedy The 10 Percenters ( 1996 ).

Charles has appeared on celebrity editions of University Challenge ( 1998 ), Can't Cook, Won't Cook ( 1998 ) and The Weakest Link ( 2004 ), and comedy panel shows such as Have I Got News For You ( 1995 ), Just a Minute ( 1995 ) and They Think It's All Over ( 1996 ).

Charles appeared in the John Godber comedy play Teechers, in which he swapped in and out of various roles, at the Arts Theatre, London, and at the Edinburgh Festival ( 1989 ), and he played Idle Jack in the pantomime Dick Whittington, at the Hull New Theatre ( 1997 ).