The standard format was that of speakers making speeches for and against a position followed by a general vote ( usually by show of hands ) of yes or no.

Most international versions of the show remain quite similar to each other in that their main format remains true to the original fly on the wall, observational style, with the emphasis being on human relationships.

* Filename extension, suffix to the name of a computer file, designed to show its format

Research results show that the most effective learning takes place in a blended format.

The New Price Is Right, an update of the 1950s era game show The Price Is Right, debuted in 1972 and marked CBS's return to the game show format in its effort to draw wealthier, suburban viewers.

Undaunted, the producers put together a syndication deal for the show, which continued in roughly the same format for 20 more years ( though Owens departed in 1986 ).

Other luminaries include Keith Johnstone, the British teacher and writer – author of Impro, who founded the Theatre Machine and whose teachings form the foundation of the popular shortform Theatresports format, Dick Chudnow, founder of ComedySportz which evolved its family-friendly show format from Johnstone's Theatersports, Stan Wells, creator of the " Clap-In " longform style and founder of The Empty Stage Comedy Theatre in Los Angeles, and Bill Johnson, creator / director of The Magic Meathands, who pioneered the concept of " Commun-edy Outreach " by tailoring performances to non-traditional audiences, such as the homeless and foster children.

The Bakkers greatly contributed to the growth of the network, and their success with a variety show format ( including interviews and puppets ) helped make The 700 Club one of the longest-running and most successful televangelism programs.

Morton Downey, Jr. ( December 9, 1932 – March 12, 2001 ) was an American singer, songwriter and later a television talk show host of the 1980s who pioneered the " trash TV " format on his program The Morton Downey Jr. Show.

Because of the controversial format and content of the show, distributor MCA Television had problems selling the show to a number of stations and advertisers.

Although the show returned for the 1958 – 1959 season ( 5: 30 to 6: 00 pm ET ), these programs were repeats from the first two seasons, re-cut into a half-hour format.

Freeform radio is particularly popular as a college radio format ; offshoots include the recent ( and somewhat controversial, due to its lack of on-air personalities ) eclectic-pop format known as variety hits, which plays a wide assortment of mostly top-40 music from a span of several decades ; and podcast radio, a mostly talk format pioneered by Infinity Broadcasting's KYOU station in California and Adam Curry's Podcast show on Sirius Satellite Radio.

The production of the show was in a conventional sitcom format, with episodes taped live in front of a studio audience, interposed with pre-filmed location material.

His talk show began in 1984 at Sacramento radio station KFBK, featuring his ongoing format of political commentary and listener calls.

In 2007, G4 stopped airing the show in its 2. 0 format.

" The show is tentatively called All Together Now and is assumed to follow the format of Merrily We Roll Along.

Two radio stations — KMOX, 1120 AM in St. Louis, Missouri, and KABC, 790 AM in Los Angeles — adopted an all-talk show format in 1960, and both claim to be the first to have done so.

It was a show which covered many topics, but the ' Hot Talk ' format in the USA would probably be the best way to describe the program.

** The Avengers ( Radio series ), a Union of South Africa radio show ca 1976 with the same characters and similar plots as the earlier TV show appearing several times a week in serialized format.

* Morris Jastrow, Jr., The Civilization of Babylonia and Assyria: its remains, language, history, religion, commerce, law, art, and literature, London: Lippincott ( 1915 ) — a searchable facsimile at the University of Georgia Libraries ; also available in layered PDF format

* Despite its heritage, Applesoft lacked commands common to most other Microsoft BASIC interpreters, such as INSTR ( which searched for a substring in a given string ; this had to be done manually with loops and the MID $ function ), PRINT USING ( which formatted numbers with commas and currency signs according to a format string ), and INKEY $ ( which checked for a keypress without stopping the program as Applesoft's GET command — analogous to the INPUT $ function — did, although a PEEK location did provide this functionality ).

The distinctive “ double-pull ” format that typifies most of these songs — also at times used, with slight changes, for pumps, windlass, and capstan, too — was a later development that appears to owe much to African-American work songs.

As far back as the early 2nd century, there is evidence that the codex — usually of papyrus — was the preferred format among Christians: in the library of the Villa of the Papyri, Herculaneum ( buried in AD 79 ), all the texts ( Greek literature ) are scrolls ( see Herculaneum papyri ); in the Nag Hammadi " library ", secreted about AD 390, all the texts ( Gnostic Christian ) are codices.

In September 1978, the company demonstrated an optical digital audio disc with a 150 minute playing time, 44, 056 Hz sampling rate, 16-bit linear resolution, and cross-interleaved error correction code — specifications similar to those later settled upon for the standard Compact Disc format in 1980.

* DV, MiniDV — used in most of today's videotape-based consumer camcorders ; designed for high quality and easy editing ; can also record high-definition data ( HDV ) in MPEG-2 format

* Digital8 — DV-format data recorded on Hi8-compatible cassettes ; largely a consumer format

* D-VHS — MPEG-2 format data recorded on a tape similar to S-VHS

It creates a new format built on portion addresses from Web pages ; when dereferenced, each portion on the resulting page remains click-connected to its original context — always a key aspect of transclusion for Nelson, but missing in most implementations of transclusion.

Michel Maittaire ( 1667 – 1747 ) and Georg Wolfgang Panzer ( 1729 – 1805 ) arranged printed material chronologically in annals format, and in the first half of the nineteenth century, Ludwig Hain published, Repertorium bibliographicum — a checklist of incunabula arranged alphabetically by author: " Hain numbers " are still a reference point.

The CD + G format of a karaoke disc, which contains the lyrics on a specially encoded subcode track, has heretofore required special — and expensive — equipment to play.

This is why many oldies stations, like WCBS-FM in New York City and WJMK in Chicago, have switched over to the younger-oriented Jack FM format in recent years — although WCBS-FM reverted back to its oldies format on July 12, 2007, and the " Jack FM " format was moved to its HD2 subchannel.

During the mid-to-late-1990s, the " Mix " format — a loosely defined mixture of Top-40 and classic rock with something of an emphasis on adult contemporary music — began to appear across the country.

The character of Punch adapted to the new format, going from a stringed comedian who might say outrageous things to a more aggressive glove-puppet who could do outrageous — and often violent — things to the other characters.

* An introduction to the PNG image format — Including test images, file editing tips, and reviews of PNG image tools for Windows.

* Booklet stamp — stamps produced and issued in booklet format.

* Souvenir sheet — a commemorative issue in large format valid for postage often containing a perforated or imperforate stamp as part of its design.

The first two acts were successfully premièred in Zürich in 1937, but for personal reasons Helene Berg subsequently imposed a ban on any attempt to " complete " the final act, which Berg had in fact completed in particell ( short score ) format.

Rarely are videogame FAQs in a question-and-answer format, although they may contain a short section of questions and answers.

On U. S. models, Chrysler copied the short bench, long bench format of their full-size vans for most of their minivan models.

What these three do with that format, however, is nothing short of breathtaking ".

A soap opera, sometimes called " soap " for short, is an ongoing, episodic work of dramatic fiction presented in serial format on radio or as television programming.

Short play: A more popular format recently, the short play removes the intermission and generally runs over an hour but less than an hour-and-a-half.

The operator then un-mutes the radio and answers the call then can talk in a regular conversation or negotiates a data link using voice or the ALE built-in short text message format.

From its first episode, Sesame Street has structured its format by using " a strong visual style, fast-moving action, humor, and music ", as well as animation and live-action short films.

In recent years, a controversy has developed between supporters of short and long format three-day events.

The 2004 Olympic Summer Games in Athens, Greece chose the short format, due to lack of facilities, time and financing, which sparked a large debate in the eventing community whether to keep the steeplechase phase or just offer cross-country.

The format of the sport underwent major changes in 2004 and 2005, with the creation of the " short " or " modified format ", which excluded phases A, B, and C from endurance day.

To prevent the elimination of the sport from the Olympics program, the " short format " was developed by the FEI.

The short format is now the standard for international competition, such as the Olympics and World Equestrian Games.

However, some upper-level riders claim to prefer the short format, as they believe it saves wear-and-tear on their horses and allows the horse not only to compete in more three-day events each season, but decreases the chance of injury to the horse.

However, this claim has not held true in several recent studies that compared injuries sustained in classic and in short format competitions over equivalent courses.

Further, some research indicates that horses are more stressed by the short format than by the careful warm-up inherent in the classic format.

Regardless, many upper-level riders prepare their horses for the short format using the same conditioning and training as for the long format.

The short format has also been widely urged by breeders of heavier, warmblood-type horses.

The now-defunct CBCI or College Bowl format emphasizes comparatively short questions on academics, current events, pop culture, and general knowledge.

The FIA attempted to make Group C into a virtual " two seater Grand Prix " format in the early 1990s, with engine rules in common with F1, short race distances, and a schedule dovetailing with that of the F1 rounds.

When the folding sequence is such that the last flap to be closed is on a short side it is referred to in commercial envelope manufacture as a '" pocket "'-a format frequently employed in the packaging of small quantities of seeds.

Car Wars was first published in a small ziplock-bag format in 1980, and cited Alan Dean Foster's short story, " Why Johnny Can't Speed ", as a primary inspiration.