The formal ceremony at which the Awards of Merit are presented is one of the most prominent award ceremonies in the world, and is televised live in more than 100 countries annually.

According to an apocryphal tale from this era, in a televised face-off, either Capp ( on the Dick Cavett Show ) or ( more commonly ) conservative talk show host Joe Pyne ( on his own show ) is supposed to have taunted iconoclastic musician Frank Zappa about his long hair, asking Zappa if he thought he was a girl.

" The Elephant " from Camille Saint-Saëns ' The Carnival of the Animals is a satirical portrait of the double bass, and American virtuoso Gary Karr made his televised debut playing " The Swan " ( originally written for the cello ) with the New York Philharmonic conducted by Leonard Bernstein.

* 1940 – Basketball is televised for the first time ( Fordham University vs. the University of Pittsburgh in Madison Square Garden ).

In the Dark Times ( occasionally mentioned in the televised serials such as The Five Doctors ), Gallifrey was at the centre of an empire covering dozens of worlds and continually being extended by heroes such as Prydonius ( whom the Time Lord chapter is named after ).

* 1953 – The coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, who is crowned Queen of the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Her Other Realms and Territories & Head of the Commonwealth, the first major international event to be televised.

This style is inspired by 1970s televised theatre.

" Spam " is a popular Monty Python sketch, first televised in 1970.

* 1952 – The Kentucky Derby is televised nationally for the first time on the CBS network.

A common enterprise use of IP multicast is for IPTV applications such as distance learning and televised company meetings.

In the episode " Q2 ", which is the last televised appearance of Q, Q appears on Voyager with his immature, rebellious son, who appears as a human teenager ( played by John de Lancie's real-life son Keegan de Lancie, and referred to in the novels as " Little Q " or " q ").

* 1947 – The World Series, featuring the New York Yankees and the Brooklyn Dodgers, is televised for the first time.

* 1951 – The first live sporting event seen coast-to-coast in the United States, a college football game between Duke and the University of Pittsburgh, is televised on NBC.

The game routinely sells out ( up to 11, 000 seats, depending upon the venue and seating arrangement ) and has been televised by ABC, ESPN2, and HDNet Each year, alumni from both schools gather at more than 50 locations around the United States for telecast parties, and a commemorative DVD ( including historic clips known as " Monon Memories ") is produced each year.

** A weather map is televised for the first time, sent from NAA Arlington to the Weather Bureau Office in Washington, D. C.

** In San Francisco, during his second televised debate with Jimmy Carter, U. S. President Gerald Ford stumbles when he declares that " there is no Soviet domination of Eastern Europe " ( there is at the time ).

* January 8 – George H. W. Bush is televised falling violently ill at a state dinner in Japan, vomiting into the lap of Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa and fainting.

** The Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert, held at Wembley Stadium, is televised live to over 1 billion people and raises millions of dollars for AIDS research.

This marks the first time a major Hollywood film running more than ninety minutes is televised uncut in one evening.

** The opening of the Parliament of the United Kingdom is televised for the first time.

** A Canadian parliamentary committee is televised for the first time.

* The experimental television station, W9XAP, in Chicago, Illinois, broadcasts the election for the U. S. Senate, which is the first time that a senatorial race, with continual tallies of the votes, is ever televised.

Akihabara is a major shopping area for electronic, computer, anime, and otaku goods, including new and used items.

* In the anime television series Beyblade, the character Enrique possesses the bit beast Amphilyon, which is based on this creature in design.

In the 2006 anime Black Lagoon, the nickname of the local Russian mob boss is " Balalaika ".

* In anime Bleach is an example, Ikkaku Madarame carries a bokken when in his Gigai as he wasn't allowed to carry a real sword in public.

Cyberpunk is also featured prominently in anime, Akira and Ghost in the Shell being among the most notable.

* Seras Victoria, a character in the anime / manga Hellsing, of which an alternate romanization is " Ceres "

" Southern Cross " is the Japanese title of the Orange Crew, a group of Gym Leaders who preside over the Orange Island archipelago's league and are featured in the Pokémon anime.

In the manga and anime series Ghost in the Shell, the protagonist Motoko Kusanagi is the fully prosthetic leader of an anti-terrorist force, who lives in a future Japan where the majority of adults are cyborgs and can connect wirelessly to the Internet for real-time communication and data research.

is a 1998 Japanese anime series developed by Sunrise.

Cowboy Bebop is now considered to be one of the greatest and most influential anime of all time.

This implies that much anime is not specifically Japanese and therefore lacks a distinct national identity.

Unlike other anime and manga, where jokes and references are often exclusory or require knowledge of Japanese culture and / or the workings and conventions of anime, Cowboy Bebop is accessible – western audiences can connect with the characters readily and more fully understand their motivations and struggles.

* The anime Digimon is set in a variant of the cyberspace concept called the " Digital World ".

Daedalus is the name of a major character in the game Deus Ex and the anime Ergo Proxy.

There is a character in the Saint Seiya comic and anime called Cepheus Daedalus, a silver saint from Argentina, master of Andromeda Shun and Chameleon June.

is a Japanese manga series created by Fujiko F. Fujio which later became an anime series and an Asian franchise.

Doraemon is also mentioned in several anime and manga by other manga artists.

, short for, is a Japanese media franchise encompassing digital toys, anime, manga, video games and videos.

The effect of Digivolution, however, is not permanent in the partner Digimon of the main characters in the anime, and Digimon who have digivolved will most of the time revert back to their previous form after a battle or if they are too weak to continue.

Where foreign distribution occurs, dubbing is common in theatrically released films, television series, cartoons and anime.

* In the anime Trinity Blood Esther is the main character, a nun with a star on her side.

Mobile Suit Gundam Wing, known in Japan as, is an anime series in the mecha genre, and is one of the alternate universe Gundam series, taking place in the After Colony timeline.

Solid State Society is a sequel to the TV anime series storyline, and so takes place in a separate continuity.