) Contrary to some reports, these transmissions were far from the first VHF telecasts.

Mantle served as a part-time color commentator on NBC's baseball coverage in 1969, teaming with Curt Gowdy and Tony Kubek to call some Game of the Week telecasts as well as that year's All-Star Game.

It was not until September 1956 that NBC began using color film to time-delay and preserve some of its live color telecasts.

The first two were carried by some stations equipped for color telecasts well before NBC began its regular weekly color dramas in 1959, beginning with the Western series Bonanza.

Shortly before Jarrett's departure, KTVT dropped its long-running Saturday night wrestling telecasts ; according to some reports, the cancellation was the result of frequent on-air profanity ( mostly used by Eric Embry ), despite multiple warnings from station management, as well as the controversial superkick incident between Tatum and Tessa.

The first telecasts used an optical-mechanical picture scanning method, the method that Nipkow had helped create with his disk ; he could claim some credit for the invention.

" He has also been an analyst on several ESPN telecasts, including pre-game shows on Sundays and Monday nights, and some radio work as well.

He was also hired by ESPN to work some of that network's baseball telecasts.

In 1988, he was among several veteran announcers who called some September NFL telecasts for NBC while many of the network's regular broadcasters were working that year's Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea.

Along with NBC network programming, the station also airs some local programs, including select Portland Trail Blazers game telecasts, even as NBC itself no longer televises NBA games.

Although some ESPN sportscasters such as John Saunders and Dick Vitale began to also appear on ABC Sports telecasts, ESPN and ABC Sports continued to operate separately.

One notable exception was Monday Night Football, which switched to different graphics as part of then-new producer Don Ohlmeyer's attempt to provide some new vigor into those telecasts.

Still, it was carried on most cable systems throughout New England, and channel 56 did carry some sports programming of its own, including road games of the Boston Celtics from 1966 to 1969 and road telecasts of the Boston Bruins from 1966 to 1967.

It also carried telecasts of the World Hockey Association's New England Whalers ( now the NHL's Carolina Hurricanes ) during the 1972-73 and 1973-74 seasons ( 25 regular-season games during 1972-73 and 20 games the next season, some home and some away games broadcast each year ).

In 1988, Scott was one of several veteran announcers to call some September NFL telecasts for NBC, while many of the network's regular broadcasters were working at that year's Summer Olympics in Seoul.

State's local TV channel, Sayhyadri and E TV Marathi telecasts some documentaries on the life of this great poet.

If some of the games were cancelled by a strike or lockout, Major League Baseball still got all its money, but had to compensate Fox with additional telecasts.

From 6: 00am Monday to Sunday, continuous telecasts from international broadcasters via satellite from some of the most respected news bureaus of the world, news reviews and magazine style information programmes.

During the making recently of an important Biblical film, some 40 volumes of research material and sketches not only of costumes and interiors, but of architectural developments, sports arenas, vehicles, and other paraphernalia were compiled, consulted, and complied with.

Cuarón faced criticism from some of the more purist Harry Potter fans for his approach to the film.

Critically, the film was also better received than the first two instalments, with some critics remarking that it was the first Harry Potter film to truly capture the essence of the novels.

In collaboration with Frederick Loewe, he created some of the world's most popular and enduring works of musical theatre for both the stage and on film.

Loewe retired to Palm Springs, California while Lerner went through a series of musicals, some successful, some not, with such composers as André Previn ( Coco ), John Barry ( Lolita, My Love ), Leonard Bernstein ( 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue ), Burton Lane ( Carmelina ) and Charles Strouse ( Dance a Little Closer, based on the film, Idiot's Delight, nicknamed Close A Little Faster by Broadway wags because it closed on opening night ).

However, the film's ambitious scope and its extensive effects work forced Campbell, Raimi and producer Rob Tapert to put up $ 1 million of their collective salaries to shoot a new ending and not film a scene where a possessed woman pushes down some giant pillars.

Because of the subject matter and graphic violence of some of De Palma's films, such as Dressed to Kill, Scarface and Body Double, they are often at the center of controversy with the Motion Picture Association of America, film critics and the viewing public.

Campbell will not act in the movie as Ash, but may still make some sort of appearance in the film.

Its success ( coupled with some theatrical releases of the film in Europe ) convinced CBS to turn it into a weekly series, which began airing in the Spring of 1978.

It contains some of Chaplin's most famous gags, such as the Tramp eating his shoe and the " Dance of the Rolls ", and he later said it was the film he would most like to be remembered for.

To some scholars, such as Donald McCaffrey, this is an indication that Chaplin never completely understood film as a medium, but Gerald Mast has argued that by deliberately adopting this approach, Chaplin made " all consciousness of the cinematic medium disappear so completely that we concentrate solely on the photographic subject rather than the process ".

Although some of Chaplin's critics have claimed that credit for his film music should be given to the composers who worked with him, for example Raksin, who worked with Chaplin on Modern Times, has stressed Chaplin's creative position and active participation in the composing process.

One of the oldest genres in film, some of the very first silent movies were comedies.

By the middle of the decade, some of the 1950s generation of American comedians, such as Jerry Lewis, went into decline, while Peter Sellers found success with international audiences in his first American film The Pink Panther.

Occasionally, a film can become the object of a cult following within a particular region or culture if it has some unusual significance to that region or culture.

While it ’ s true that the top television and film actors have become movie and television stars, musicians and pop singers that become pop stars, or athletes that become sports stars often become celebrities, the other professionals that play a more peripheral role in the entertainment sphere, such as television, music, and film directors and producers, screenwriters, playwrights, and animators are less likely to attain celebrity status ( albeit there are some exceptions, such as directors Steven Spielberg, Quentin Tarantino and animator Seth MacFarlane ).

Despite a cast led by Charlton Heston and Yul Brynner and some impressive battle scenes, the film was considered a disappointment by many.

Some small sense of the noise and power of a cavalry charge can be gained from the 1970 film Waterloo, which featured some 2000 cavalrymen, some of them cossacks.

Videos of rod-shaped objects moving quickly through the air were claimed by some to be alien life forms or small UFOs, but subsequent experiments showed that these rods appear in film because of an optical illusion / collusion ( especially in interlaced video recording ).

He is best known in the film industry for his role as Prince Humperdinck in Rob Reiner's 1987 film The Princess Bride, though he also has had supporting parts in some other successful films such as the original Child's Play ( 1988 ).

Then suddenly we found ourselves in the middle of another fight, an irrational, an indecent, an undeclared and immoral war with our strongest ( and some had thought noblest ) ally.

He patted the eye Joel had had blackened in a fight over being Rebel at the crossroads some days back.

Some of the enemy began to fight again and some Sikh warriors were annoyed by Bhai Kanhaiya as he was helping their enemy.

Specially-equipped IFVs have taken on some of the roles of light tanks ; they are used by reconnaissance organizations, and light IFVs are used by airborne units which must be able to fight without the heavy firepower of tanks.

Even before the fight began, dissension spread through some of Abd al-Rahman's lines.

This had two aims: firstly to put pressure on the Elector to fight or come to terms before Tallard arrived with reinforcements ; and secondly, to ruin Bavaria as a base from which the French and Bavarian armies could attack Vienna, or pursue the Duke into Franconia if, at some stage, he had to withdraw northwards.

Also determined to fight a major engagement, the Duke of Marlborough, commander-in-chief of Anglo-Dutch forces, assembled his army – some 62, 000 men – near Maastricht, and marched past Zoutleeuw.

In exchange for it, Odin ordered her to make two kings, each served by twenty kings, fight forever unless some christened men so brave would dare to enter the battle and slay them.

Conversely, some of the Allied infantry who had just dealt a crushing defeat to the French at the Battle of Waterloo fully expected to have to fight again the next day ( at the Battle of Wavre ).

This was a formidable fighting force, and the English archers were running very low on arrows ; the archers joined the infantry in the fight and some of both groups mounted horses to form an improvised cavalry.

This caused a faction of some 4, 000 strict traditionalists, known as Kharijites (" Seceders "), to abandon the fight.

The Dilbert phenomenon accepts — and perversely eggs on — many negative aspects of corporate existence as unchangeable facets of human nature ... As Xerox managers grasped, Dilbert speaks to some very real work experiences while simultaneously eroding inclinations to fight for better working conditions.

It did create some morale, but this was undermined by their visible lack of uniforms and weaponry for the fight.

They defeat their respective opponents in the competition held the following morning, after arranging for some crooked side-betting on Roper's fight.

Fabius did not attempt to fight the promotion of the overly-ambitious Minucius, but rather decided to wait until Minucius ' rashness caused him to run headlong into some disaster.

This boarding-bridge allowed the Roman navy to circumvent some of Carthage's naval skills by using their marines to board Carthaginian ships and fight in hand to hand combat.

Terror achieved some of the intended military objectives, but also gave additional motivation to each side to fight against an enemy perceived to be inhuman and cruel.

In some disciplines, especially those where the guard is used, the bottom grappler may also be able to finish the fight from the bottom by a submission hold.

His third marriage was to Deianira, for whom he had to fight the river god Achelous ( upon Achelous ' death, Heracles removed one of his horns and gave it to some nymphs who turned it into the cornucopia.

Sometime after their fight with the Gegeines, they sent some men to find food and water.

Like some other martial arts, kendōka train and fight barefoot.

The only way this differs from some currents in anarcho-syndicalism is that, according to De Leonist thinking, a revolutionary political party is also necessary to fight for the proletariat on the political field.

The complaints of the two main preaching orders of the period, the Dominicans and the Franciscans, against the moral corruption of the Church, to some extent echoed those of the heretical movements, but they were doctrinally conventional, and were enlisted by Pope Innocent III in the fight against heresy.

In the Chronicle of Hildesheim, in the entry for the year 985 it is noted that Mieszko came to help the Saxons in their fight against some Slavic forces, presumably the Polabians.

They had to fight off some stiff competition though, including a last-minute entry by British architect Richard Rogers.