Three railway stations — those of the German, French and Swiss networks — lie within the city ( although the Swiss ( Basel SBB ) and French ( Bâle SNCF ) stations are actually in the same complex, separated by Customs and Immigration facilities ).

Television in the United States has long been dominated by the Big Three television networks, ABC, CBS and NBC, but Fox, launched in 1986, has gained prominence and is now considered as part of the " Big Four.

Three years later, in 1968, television networks in the United States, for the first time, imposed no time limit for their coverage of a State of the Union address.

Smith moved to ABC at a time when that network's news division was a distant third among the " Big Three " networks.

Three networks with arbitrary propagation constants and impedances connected in cascade.

The film network effort would fail after a few years, but Fox continued to dabble in television through its production arm, TCF Television Productions, producing series such as Perry Mason for the Big Three television networks.

Fox only airs two hours of network programming during the prime time hours, and three hours on Sundays, compared to the three weeknight and four Sunday night hours broadcast by the Big Three networks.

Some Fox stations have a newscast schedule similar to many affiliates of either of the three networks that predate the launch of Fox, along with the added 10 p. m. late newscast, a weekday morning newscast extended by two to three hours and an early evening newscast that is extended by a half-hour ( newscasts in the latter two timeslots generally compete with the national morning and evening newscasts on the Big Three networks ), while others only have a half-hour or hour-long 10 p. m. newscast.

Fox affiliates that have their newscasts produced by another area station tend to have fewer hours devoted to news than their Big Three counterparts ( generally limited to one evening newscast and a one-or two-hour weekday morning newscast ) with little to no expansion into other timeslots due to the contracting station choosing to not carry newscasts on the Fox station in timeslots that compete with their own ( which differs from outsourcing agreements between two stations affiliated with either of the three pre-1986 broadcast networks where both stations may simulcast local news programs in the same timeslots ).

As one of the Big Three television networks, its programming has contributed to American popular culture.

By end of the 2003 – 2004 television season, ABC slumped to fourth place, becoming the first of the original " Big Three " networks to fall to such a ranking.

With the launch of Sirius Canada in December 2005, some of the CBC ’ s radio networks ( including Radio Canada International and Sirius-exclusive Radio Three and Bande à part channels ) are available to Sirius subscribers in the United States.

Kovacs ' television programs included Three to Get Ready ( an early morning program seen on Philadelphia's WPTZ from 1950 through 1952 ), It's Time for Ernie ( 1951, his first network series ), Ernie in Kovacsland, ( a summer replacement show for Kukla, Fran and Ollie, 1951 ), The Ernie Kovacs Show ( 1952 – 56 on various networks ), a twice-a-week job filling in for Steve Allen as host of The Tonight Show on Mondays and Tuesdays ( 1956 – 57 ), and game shows Gamble on Love, One Minute Please, Time Will Tell ( all on DuMont ), and Take a Good Look ( 1959 – 61 ).

As the 1990s began, the " Big Three " networks ( ABC, NBC, and CBS ) were no longer a three-way oligopoly.

* Locally produced programs featuring a franchise title on affiliates of Fox, The CW, MyNetworkTV, independent stations and associated Big Three television networks ( ABC, CBS and NBC )

* Big Three television networks

Three primary benefits of 2G networks over their predecessors were that phone conversations were digitally encrypted ; 2G systems were significantly more efficient on the spectrum allowing for far greater mobile phone penetration levels ; and 2G introduced data services for mobile, starting with SMS text messages.

Within ten years, all three of the " Big Three " networks, along with several cable outlets, had late night variety talk shows being shown nightly.

In the USA the Big Three television networks refused to show commercials for the film, which they said was sacrilegious and offensive.

By the mid-1940s the broadcasting arena was a big Three television networks battle.

This was the umbrella title under which Trio aired repeats of series that had very short lives on mainstream broadcast television, yet were still considered to be programming that " broke the mold " of what was normally expected from the " Big Three " networks.

The RSHA included three independent espionage networks in the " Red Orchestra ": the Trepper group in Germany, France, and Belgium, the Red Three () in Switzerland, and the Schulze-Boysen / Harnack group in Berlin.

Three other networks exist: The Soft AC network Lugna Favoriter ( 12 stations, MTG ) and two CHR networks, only existing in the three major cities: The Voice ( SBS ) and NRJ ( MTG ).

Three of these use the Chinese character 儒 rú, meaning " scholar ".

The Three Jewels of Buddhism are the Buddha, meaning the mind's perfection of enlightenment, the Dharma, meaning the teachings and the methods of the Buddha, and the Sangha, meaning those awakened beings who provide guidance and support to followers of the Buddha.

Much of this tradition derives from the pagan Anglo-Saxon customs held during " Þrimilci-mōnaþ " ( the Old English name for the month of May meaning Month of Three Milkings ) along with many Celtic traditions.

Both sides bear the inscription " III VIR R P C ", meaning " One of Three Men for the Regulation of the Republic ".

He was sent to the court of one of the emperor's son, Zhu Di the Prince of Yan, where he was called Sān Bǎo ( 三寶 / 三宝, or 三保 ) meaning ' Three Jewels.

The Romans gave their settlement the name Tridentum ( Tri Dentum, meaning ' Three Teeth ') because of the three hills that surround the city: the Doss Trent, Sant ' Agata and San Rocco.

Three of the latter, St. Emmeram, Niedermünster and Obermünster, were estates of their own within the Holy Roman Empire, meaning that they were granted a seat and a vote at the Imperial Diet ( Reichstag ).

Three significant contributions of the Stoic school were ( i ) their account of modality, ( ii ) their theory of the Material conditional, and ( iii ) their account of meaning and truth.

Both sides bear the inscription " III VIR R P C ", meaning " One of Three Men for the Regulation of the Republic ".

In 1956 Holly's band ( then known informally as Buddy and the Two Tones ( meaning Buddy Holly with Sonny Curtis and Don Guess ), posthumous releases refer to The Three Tunes ) recorded an album's worth of rockabilly numbers in Nashville, Tennessee for Decca ; the records were no more than mildly successful, and the band didn't hit pay dirt until 1957, when producer and recording engineer Norman Petty hosted Holly's sessions in Clovis, New Mexico.

He was officially styled Sri Maharaja Sang Utama Parameswara Batara Sri Tri Buana ( meaning: " Lord Central King Batara of " Sri Tri Buana " or ' Three world Realm '"), signifying his lordship over Palembang, Bintan and Singapura.

Three types of negative commandments fall under the yehareg ve ' al ya ' avor, meaning " One should let himself be killed rather than violate it ".

Three of the five Level I trauma centers were on " diversion ", meaning ambulances with all but the most severely injured patients were being directed elsewhere because the ED could not safely accommodate any more patients.

* In southern Korean states, the word Han or Gan, meaning " leader ", possibly derived from Khan, was used for various ruling princes, until Silla, one of the Three Kingdoms of Korea, united them under a now hereditary king, titled Maripgan, meaning the ' head of kings ' ( e. g. King Naemul Maripgan ).

Three weeks after receiving the package, and still unable to decode its meaning, OCD received a phone call from an unknown source, tracked to Los Angeles, New York, Australia and Saturn.

His title of Samdo Sugun Tongjesa ( Hangul: 삼도수군통제사, Hanja: 三道水軍統制使 ), literally meaning " Naval Commander of the Three Provinces ," was the title for the commander of the Korean navy until 1896.

Three of the negative commandments fall under the category of self-sacrifice under Jewish Law, meaning " one should himself be killed rather than transgress the prohibition.

" Going for Refuge to the Three Jewels " – meaning the Buddha, the Dharma, and the Sangha – is considered to be what makes someone a Buddhist

(" Triratna ", Sanskrit term meaning Three Jewels )

Three classical ways in which mystics directly experience God: first, bodily visions, meaning to be aware with one's senses — sight, sound, or others ; second, ghostly visions, such as spiritual visions and sayings directly imparted to the soul ; and lastly, intellectual enlightenment, where her mind came into a new understanding of God.

For many of his battlefield exploits during the Northern expedition, he was given the laudatory nickname Xiao Zhuge, literally meaning " little Zhuge Liang ," of the Three Kingdoms fame.