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A majority of the DeMille motion picture library now resides with EMKA, Ltd. through the television division of NBC Universal, due to Paramount Pictures ' losing the rights to the DeMille films in 1958 to EMKA, so technically it is Universal Pictures that now oversees a vast part of DeMille's motion picture career as well as its related archival material.
In time, cable television was widely established to carry available Canadian stations as well as import American stations, which constituted the vast majority of signals on systems ( usually only one or two Canadian stations, while some systems had duplicate or even triplicate coverage of American networks ).
Lord and Lady Mountbatten with Muhammad Ali JinnahNotwithstanding the self-promotion of his own part in Indian independence — notably in the television series The Life and Times of Admiral of the Fleet Lord Mountbatten of Burma, produced by his son-in-law Lord Brabourne and Dominique Lapierre, and Larry Collins's Freedom at Midnight ( of which he was the main quoted source ) — his record is seen as very mixed ; one common view is that he hastened the independence process unduly and recklessly, foreseeing vast disruption and loss of life and not wanting this to occur on the British watch, but thereby actually causing it to occur, especially in Punjab and Bengal.
* Gene therapy plays a recurring role in the present-time sci-fi television program ReGenesis, where it is used to cure various diseases, enhance athletic performance and produce vast profits for bio-tech corporations.
" He possessed enormous capital within that company, and as the unknown form of television news loomed large, he would spend it freely, first in radio news, then in television, taking on Senator Joseph McCarthy first, then eventually William S. Paley himself, and with a foe that formidable, even the vast Murrow account would soon run dry.
Had the WFL come into existence a few years later, the league might have succeeded, but the league predated the vast expansion of cable television and sports networks spearheaded by the birth of ESPN in 1979.
: The effect of the serials, which held vast audiences enthralled ... is unlike any experience of reading we are likely to have known ourselves, maybe something like that of a particularly gripping television series.
The Minnow was named in reference to Newton Minow, chairman of the U. S. FCC, who was most famous for describing television as " a vast wasteland ".
In the speech, Minow referred to American commercial television programming as a " vast wasteland " and advocated for programming in the public interest.
It was a landmark speech for the medium of television, at a time when there were only three networks in the United States and when the realm of television was much less vast than it is today.
Martin had recently watched twenty consecutive hours of television as research for a magazine piece, and concluded it was " a vast wasteland of junk.
Nearly every pre-1960s British television programme in the archives is in the form of a telerecording, along with the vast majority of existing 1960s output.
The vast majority of television advertisements today consist of brief advertising spots, ranging in length from a few seconds to several minutes ( as well as program-length infomercials ).
* Canadian Association of Broadcasters, the national voice of Canada's private broadcasters, representing the vast majority of Canadian programming services, including private radio and television stations, specialty, pay and pay-per-view services
Despite the fact that commercial stations ( such as Sky Sports ) have acquired the vast majority of sports television broadcasting rights in the UK, the BBC remains dominant in radio sport with BBC Radio 5 Live and its local radio stations.
Tally predictions and long complex counts have given election outcomes on television and radio much of their appeal, making election results coverage, which may last from 15 hours to days, depending on the closeness of an election, producing a form of spectator sport watched by vast viewerships.
The vast publicity for the one-year-in-the-planning Mandela concert which was receiving massive worldwide live television coverage in the style of Live Aid made it virtually impossible for the comparatively last-minute Amnesty event, with less celebrated performers, organised by people without much previous experience, to succeed.
In its early days, their hobby was strengthened by the fact that most backhaul was analog and " in the clear " ( unscrambled or unencrypted ) which made for a vast smorgasbord of free television available for the technically inclined amateur.
This is a direct response to the fact that commercial television in the U. S. is not controlled by the government, whereas the vast majority of other countries ' television systems are controlled by the government.
Because most other teams wear their colors at home, the Cowboys end up wearing white in the vast majority of their games ; the team's early owners recognized this fact and believed it would lead to better recognition on television, and the tradition remains today.
NBCUniversal would relocate its vast television and cable operations to the Universal City complex.

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As a minority owner of the Milwaukee Braves, Selig founded the organization Teams, Inc, in an attempt to prevent the majority owners ( based out of Chicago ) from moving the club to a larger television market.
Initially, the systems brought American stations to viewers in Canada who had no Canadian stations to watch ; broadcast television, though begun late in 1952 in Toronto and Montreal, did not reach a majority of cities until 1954.
Although the majority of WADs contain one or several custom levels mostly in the style of the original game, others implement new monsters and other resources, and heavily alter the gameplay ; several popular movies, television series, other video games and other brands from popular culture have been turned into Doom WADs by fans ( without authorization ), including Aliens, Star Wars, The X-Files, The Simpsons, South Park, Sailor Moon, Dragon Ball Z, Red Faction, The Thing, Pokémon and Batman.
The majority of homes also have access to satellite television with mostly United Kingdom channels.
Game shows have had an inconsistent place in Canadian television, with most homegrown game shows there being made for the French-speaking Quebecois market and the majority of English-language game shows in the country being rebroadcast from, or made with the express intent of export to, the United States ; there have been exceptions to this ( see, for instance, the long-running Definition ).
Shigeru Egami, Chief Instructor of Shotokan Dojo, opined " that the majority of followers of karate in overseas countries pursue karate only for its fighting techniques ... Movies and television ... depict karate as a mysterious way of fighting capable of causing death or injury with a single blow ... the mass media present a pseudo art far from the real thing.
The majority of media about lesbians is produced by men ; women's publishing companies did not develop until the 1970s, films about lesbians made by women did not appear until the 1980s, and television shows portraying lesbians written by women only began to be created in the 21st century.
* 1969 – Vietnam War: U. S. President Richard M. Nixon addresses the nation on television and radio, asking the " silent majority " to join him in solidarity on the Vietnam War effort and to support his policies.
The majority of Australian television soap operas are produced for early evening or evening timeslots.
Many of these were produced in an effort to comply with Canadian content regulations, which require a majority of programming on Canadian television to originate from Canada.
In the past, science fiction television shows have maintained a family friendly format that rendered them suitable for all ages, especially children, as the majority of them were of the action-adventure format.
City councilmen were zapped, and Mayor John Lindsay was zapped several times — once on television when GAA members made up the majority of the audience.
library, the U. S. rights to a majority of the RKO Radio Pictures library, and the television series Gilligan's Island.
** Vietnam War: U. S. President Richard M. Nixon addresses the nation on television and radio, asking the " silent majority " to join him in solidarity with the Vietnam War effort, and to support his policies.
The majority of commercial television stations are self-owned, even though a variety of these instances are the property of an Owned And Operated television network.
Justice Kennedy's opinion for the majority also noted that since the First Amendment ( and the Court ) do not distinguish between media and other corporations, these restrictions would allow Congress to suppress political speech in newspapers, books, television and blogs.
Thanks to television, RG-6 is the most commonly-used coaxial cable for home use, and the majority of connections outside Europe are by F connectors.
Like many other technological innovations, each of several companies made an attempt to produce a television recording standard that the majority of the world would embrace.
Regardless, Speed continues to air the majority of sports car racing seen on television, with only a handful seen elsewhere, primarily on local stations.
Tungsten halogen lamps are used in the majority of theatrical and studio ( film and television ) fixtures, including Ellipsoidal Reflector Spotlights and Fresnels.
Avid is still considered the industry standard, with the majority of major feature films, television programs, and commercials created with its NLE systems.
In 2006 Orange becomes the sole brand of the France Telecom group for Internet, television and mobile services in the majority of countries in which Orange operates.

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