The idea for Big Brother is said to have come during a brainstorm session at the Dutch-based international television production firm Endemol, on March 10, 1997.

The firm expanded into television in 1960 under the name Belmont Television.

In 1935 the German firm of Fernseh A. G. and the United States firm Farnsworth Television owned by Philo Farnsworth signed an agreement to exchange their television patents and technology to speed development of television transmitters and stations in their respective countries.

Farnsworth developed a television system complete with receiver and camera, which he produced commercially in the firm of the Farnsworth Television and Radio Corporation, from 1938 to 1951 .< ref name =" autogenerated2007 ">

* Wolfram & Hart, fictional law firm in the television series Angel

Headed by Arnaud Lagardère, the firm does business in around 30 countries and is structured around four main business lines: its book and electronic publishing division ( Lagardère Publishing ) includes the major imprint Hachette Livre ; while the Lagardère Active unit encompasses newspaper, digital media and magazine publishing ( including Hachette Filipacchi Médias ), radio and television broadcasting and production and advertising sales.

Commonly referred to as the Matrixx / Convergys building, the facility opened with two retail financial institutions, a marketing firm, a satellite television customer-service center, a medical consulting / MRI / diagnostic laboratory and telephone company firm as initial tenants.

Premium TV also oversaw NTL's 49-per-cent share in pay-per-view movie service Front Row, in joint venture with Telewest and NTL's 48. 1-per-cent stake in interactive television technology and games firm, Two Way TV.

Designing Women is an American television sitcom that centered on the working and personal lives of four Southern women and one man in an interior design firm in Atlanta, Georgia.

Snow was particularly annoyed as a television firm had arranged to film him at Lord's to make a fifteen minute programme with John Betjeman about his poem Lords ' Test, which was now cancelled.

Murdoch sold the paper in 1986 ( to buy its former sister television station WFLD to launch the Fox network ) for $ 145 million in cash in a leveraged buyout to an investor group led by the paper's publisher, Robert E. Page, and the New York investment firm Adler & Shaykin.

In 1986, Lorimar merged with television syndication firm Telepictures, becoming Lorimar-Telepictures ; later that year, they purchased the MGM lot from Ted Turner.

In 1997, Acme Communications was created as a chain of real television stations ; the firm is named for the fictional Acme Corporation of Warner Brothers fame.

In early 2004 the Robot Wars arena was purchased from the television production firm who produce the show ( Mentorn ) by a company called Robot Arenas Ltd based in the UK.

During 2001 and 2002, Dame Edna appeared in the fifth season of the television show Ally McBeal playing the guest role of Claire Otoms, a client of the show's law firm who later became a secretary at the same firm.

* Crane, Poole & Schmidt, a fictional law firm in the television series Boston Legal

Hugh's sister, Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill, who has even on television and radio disputed the exclusion from the succession process of potential female and female line claimants, but the head of the dynasty has been firm in his choice of his distant cousin the Duke of Tetuan.

Following her departure from politics, MacPhail married film and television producer James Shavick, and is currently a partner in his production firm Shavick Entertainment.

Before becoming an MP, he was president of the National Union of Students from 1984 to 1986, a television producer for the BBC on Newsnight from 1988 to 1990 ( where he became firm friends with fellow Manchester United supporter Michael Crick ), producer at ITN's Channel 4 News from 1990 to 1991 and head of communications at the GMB trade union from 1991 to 1997.

Years ago this was true, but with the replacement of wires or runners by radio and radar ( and perhaps television ), these restrictions have disappeared and now again too much is heard.

" could be heard on the television broadcast of Barack Obama's pre-inaugural visit to Baltimore as the National Anthem played before his entrance.

" became widely heard on British television for the first time.

Esperanto can be heard in television and radio broadcasts and on the internet.

Chapman later told a story in his college tour that when he went public, a member of the television audience wrote to the Pythons to complain that she had heard a member of the team was gay, adding that the Bible said any man who lies with a man should be taken out and stoned.

When you had trade unions, ordinary people, rank and file, never been on television, never been interviewed, and they're not allowed to be heard, that's scandalous.

The song " Bend Time Back ' Round " had previously been heard only on the 1992 soundtrack for the hit television series Beverly Hills, 90210.

The music itself would be re-used in other films ( most notably the track " L ' Enfant " in The Year of Living Dangerously ( 1982 ) by Peter Weir ; the melody of same ( in marching band format ) can also be heard at the beginning of the 1924 Summer Olympics opening ceremonies scene in the film Chariots of Fire ) and television commercials ( the track " Hymne ", used in Barilla pasta commercials in Italy and Ernest & Julio Gallo wine ads in the US ).

Signal noise is heard as acoustic noise if the signal is converted into sound ( e. g., played through a loudspeaker ); it manifests as " snow " on a television or video image.

While searching for just the right music to accompany a planned Peanuts television documentary, Lee Mendelson ( the producer of the special ) heard a single version of " Cast Your Fate to the Wind " by Vince Guaraldi's trio on the radio while traveling in a taxicab on the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, California.

" Rather, who was wearing a microphone headset, was then heard on national television repeatedly saying " don't push me " and " take your hands off me unless you plan to arrest me " to the guards.

When the scammer – who apparently never heard of the television series, asked for his passport details, he sent a copy of a fake passport with a photo of Star Trek's Captain Kirk, hoping that the scammer would attempt to use it and get arrested.

In some pronunciations, the word begins and ends with the same phoneme, the voiced postalveolar fricative, which can be heard as the " s " sound in the words " television " and " pleasure ".

Episodes of ISIRTA have frequently been heard on BBC Radio 4 Extra ( available on digital television, DAB digital radio and the web ).

Another cousin, named " Cousin Cackle ", was depicted as residing in the caves beneath the Addams mansion, often heard laughing in a cackling manner, and appeared in one Halloween episode of the television series to participate in a seance.

Some of the Radio Active scripts and / or plot devices originally heard on the radio series were reused for the TV show, though the central setting changed from a local radio station to a satellite television broadcaster, and a number of new features and scenarios which parodied television convention were added.

At 3: 30 a. m, when Juliane Lorenz arrived home, she heard the noise of television in Fassbinder ’ s room, but she could not hear him snoring.

In response both to televangelist Jimmy Swaggart's June 1987 book Religious Rock ' N ' Roll: A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing, which had criticized the music of Norman and other Christian rock artists, and Swaggart's February 1988 admission of adultery with a prostitute, Norman wrote the song " Selah ", which had its last verse censored by Benson, which was: " My songs are spiritual fornication ,/ that's what this television preacher said ./ I guess he knows a lot about fornication ,/ I heard he wrote some sermons in a prostitute's bed.

Adrian is also served by radio and television signals from Ann Arbor, Toledo, and Jackson, and some Detroit broadcasters can also be seen or heard in parts of the area.

Another published report states that on that date Stone and his third wife were watching television when they heard a racket in the back yard.

The works on these albums ( or fragments and variations ) are frequently heard in movies, television shows and commercials.

* In the HBO television series, The Sopranos, in season 6 episode " Johnny Cakes ", " That's Amore " is heard when Vito Spatafore is cooking.

It was heard one last time ( as the NBC Symphony Orchestra ) in the 1963 telecast of Gian-Carlo Menotti's Christmas opera for television, Amahl and the Night Visitors.

Nowadays Powell appears in person less often, but his distinctive voice is frequently heard on voice-overs, advertisements, and as a narrator of television programmes such as Great Crimes and Trials and The Century of Warfare.