Beginning with Reginald Fessenden's audio demonstrations in 1906, it was also the original method used for audio radio transmissions, and remains in use today by many forms of communication —" AM " is often used to refer to the mediumwave broadcast band ( see AM radio ).

Herald-Traveler Corp. operated for years under temporary authority from the Federal Communications Commission stemming from controversy over luncheon meetings the newspaper's chief executive had with an FCC commissioner during the original licensing process ( Some Boston broadcast historians accuse the Boston Globe of being covertly behind the proceeding.

BBC Radio 7 broadcast the six-part series, an abridged reading by Rufus Sewell of the original Doctor Syn novel, from January 4th 2010 to January 11th.

In this way, decisions made by the original designers of ephemeris time influenced the length of today's standard SI second, and in turn, this has a continuing influence on the number of leap seconds which have been needed for insertion into current broadcast time scales, to keep them approximately in step with mean solar time.

While not one of George Carlin's original seven dirty words, he noted in a later routine that the word fart, ought to be added to " the list " of words that were not acceptable ( for broadcast ) in any context ( which have non-offensive meanings ), and described television as ( then ) a " fart-free zone ".

In the United States, Home Improvement started to air in broadcast syndication in September 1995, distributed via Buena Vista Television ( now Disney-ABC Domestic Television ) and continued to be syndicated until 2007 ; in a manner similar to Seinfeld and The Simpsons after they began airing in broadcast syndication, episodes of Home Improvement were not aired in order of their production code number or original airdate.

Another approach is to encode the original signal at several different bitrates, and their either choose which to use ( as when streaming over the internet – as in RealNetworks ' " SureStream " – or offering varying downloads, as at Apple's iTunes Store ), or broadcast several, where the best that is successfully received is used, as in various implementations of hierarchical modulation.

* The Elegant Universe — a three-hour miniseries with Brian Greene on the series Nova ( original PBS broadcast dates: October 28, 8 – 10 p. m. and November 4, 8 – 9 p. m., 2003 ).

" Repeat " is also used to refer to programs shown less than a week after the original broadcast, before the next episode of the series.

In the years that followed, the broadcast product lines developed in Camden were terminated or sold off, and most of the buildings demolished, except for a few of the original RCA Victor buildings that had been declared national historical buildings.

The name soap opera stems from the original dramatic serials broadcast on radio that had soap manufacturers, such as Procter & Gamble, Colgate-Palmolive and Lever Brothers, as sponsors and producers.

The figure of 30. 15 million was actually a combination of the original broadcast which had just over 19 million viewers, and the Sunday omnibus edition with 10 million viewers.

While the CGI shots have already been mastered in a 16: 9 aspect ratio for future applications, they are currently broadcast in the U. S. and Canada – along with the live-action footage – in the original 4: 3 aspect ratio television format to respect the show's original composition.

The bass synthesizer music eventually replaced the original standard sitcom music by Jep Epstein when it was played again after the first broadcast " The Seinfeld Chronicles ".

References to the show in popular culture began during its original broadcast when it was parodied in an episode of The Dick Van Dyke Show, fittingly titled " The Man from My Uncle ", References in other televison shows have continued over the years, including a 2011 episode of Mad Men, " The Chrysanthemum and the Sword ".

The original TiVo DVR digitized and compressed analog video from any source ( antenna, cable or direct broadcast satellite ).

In the modern era of home video, story arcs from a long-running television series might be packaged as a trilogy boxset even if they weren't presented as such in the original broadcast.

This special episode has not been seen since its original broadcast, although it still exists in the BBC archive.

" In any case, a few more cuts were made, including to a scene where Denise is shown to possess a diaphragm and another scene where a hospital patient abruptly sits up screaming ( this was excised from the original television broadcast, but then restored for home video releases ).

In the original broadcast, when the President addressed the nation, the voice was an imitation of Ronald Reagan.

On its original broadcast ( Sunday, November 20, 1983 ), ABC and local TV affiliates opened 1-800 hotlines with counselors standing by.

When UHF television allowed a greater number of television stations to broadcast, the BBC launched a second network, BBC Two ( and the original service was later renamed BBC One ).

The War Game itself finally saw television broadcast in the United Kingdom on BBC2 on 31 July 1985, as part of a special season of programming entitled After the Bomb ( which was also Watkins ' original working title for The War Game ).

* In the episode " 11: 59 " of Star Trek: Voyager's fifth season ( original air date: May 5, 1999 ), Earth's first self-contained ecosystem known as " The Millennium Gate " is referenced and described as one kilometer tall and having begun construction in 2001.

In the first episode of Daria, she and her family move from Beavis and Butt-Head's hometown of Highland to Lawndale — the only references to the original show is a single mention of Highland in the first episode, with Daria saying Lawndale can't be a second Highland " unless there's uranium in the drinking water here too ".

The NOVA / Horizon episode The Case of the Bermuda Triangle, aired on June 27, 1976, was highly critical, stating that " When we've gone back to the original sources or the people involved, the mystery evaporates.

He is well known as a player in the original Twilight Zone ( 1959 to 1964 ), especially in the episode " It's a Good Life " ( November 1961 ), where he played a child who terrorizes his town with his psychic powers.

Recent acting performances can be seen in a 2006 episode of Crossing Jordan and the Sci Fi original film A. I.

Bixby directed one episode of the series, " Bring Me the Head of the Hulk " in 1980 ( original airdate: January 9, 1981 ).

Viewership peaked on Christmas Day 1987 when an average of 28. 5 million viewers tuned in to see Hilda Ogden leave the street to start a new life as a housekeeper for long term friend Dr Lowther ( although there is some confusion as to whether or not this was actually the highest rating episode due to a special omnibus repeat of that week's episodes being combined with the original airing ).

A well-known example of a non – carbon-based life-form in science fiction is the Horta in the original Star Trek episode " Devil in the Dark ".

A cardboard replica is left in its place, which is left standing after the original Dartmoor Prison sinks with all hands at the end of the episode.

The Ultimate Doom, the retail store version of the game, adds a fourth episode, Thy Flesh Consumed, occurring after the three original episodes of Doom and before Doom II.

* Plutonium PAK / Atomic Edition: The Atomic Edition of Duke Nukem 3D was released in November 1996, and contained the original 3 episode game as well as a new eleven-level fourth episode.

Fugues are usually precipitated by a stressful episode, and upon recovery there may be amnesia for the original stressor ( dissociative amnesia ).

The band also contributed most of the show's original music, including " My Lovely Horse ", as used in the episode " Song For Europe " and " My Lovely Mayo Mammy " for the episode " Night of the Nearly Dead ".

In their original contracts for the first season, cast members were paid $ 22, 500 per episode.

The Oregon Public Broadcasting program Oregon Field Guide covered the topic of geocaching in a February 2010 episode, paying a visit to the original site.

The case, Chilvers, Hayling, and a replica of Chilvers ' original board were featured on an episode of the BBC's The One Show in 2009.

In episode 20, someone similar to Iceman is shown as a member of the original five X-Men.

Bride hearkened back to an episode from Mary Shelley's original novel in which the Monster promises to leave Frankenstein and humanity alone if Frankenstein makes him a mate.

Though mentioned in the original Star Trek series episode " The Trouble With Tribbles ", the Klingon language first appeared on-screen in Star Trek: The Motion Picture ( 1979 ).

The episode was hosted by Eli Roth who got similar results to the original Milgram experiment.

By the end of 2007, each episode of the original TV series averaged a sales figure of 80, 928 copies, including all of the different formats it was published in ( VHS, LD, DVD, etc .).

At the start of each episode of the 1998 television series Fantasy Island, a darker version of the original, bookings for would-be visitors to the Island were sent to Mr. Roarke via a pneumatic tube from a dusty old travel agency.