Sentence examples for become the first network from inspiring English sources
The CW has become the first network to "dramatically alter" its executive structure in the wake of the writers' strike, Variety reports.
Low rated and often an also-ran, CBS News benefited greatly from Mr. Miller's work, which helped it become the first network to break into programming with news of the shooting and the first to report the level of carnage.
It really is an honor to become the first network ever to do content that is specific to electronic music and the culture it nourishes".
This type of blanket coverage was unprecedented at the time — CBS had become the first network to expand to a 30-minute news broadcast just two months earlier — and would be replicated only after the Sept. 11 attacks 38 years later.
www.boysstuff.co.uk Phone music Fire up the player Orange has become the second network to deliver music downloads direct to a mobile phone.
In September 1963, it became the first network to extend the usual 15-minute programme to half an hour, launching the first expanded format with an interview with JFK.
Not until 2006, when ABC became the first network to stream shows like "Lost" and "Grey's Anatomy" on the Internet, did television programming truly roam free.
At 11 12 p.m., NBC became the first network to call the election for Mr. Obama, only 12 minutes after all the networks were able to call it for him in 2008.
In 1994, for example, NBC became the first network to squeeze the end credits all but off the screen, and create a seamless (and commercial-free) transition from one program to the next.
TWENTY-FIVE yeago ago, when Barbara Walters became the first network news figure to make $1 million a year, some found it unseemly that a journalist should be paid like a movie star.
For the prime-time season ending in May, NBC became the first network ever to fall from first to fourth place; it lost eleven per cent of its over-all audience and nineteen per cent of viewers between the ages of eighteen and forty-nine.
