In a speech covered by CNN, Dick Cheney's attacks on John Kerry as a threat to America's security were broadcast, on a split screen, alongside what kind of images?
But during President Clinton's 1997 speech, some broadcasts went to a split screen to carry the verdict in the civil trial of acquitted murder suspect OJ Simpson, Politico's Dylan Byers reports.
A two-level hierarchical modulation scheme is an optional transmission feature of the DVB-T system, in which the data to broadcast is split into two parts: a high priority (HP) stream with a strong protection against errors, and a low priority (LP) one with less protection.
The screen went green for a moment, then, when the picture returned, it was a split screen of the NBC broadcast.
Any deal with HarperCollins would boost News Corp's publishing division ahead of a split in the company between broadcast and print.
But the trophy winners were largely in sharp contrast to the broadcast's big-tent ambitions, revealing an Academy with a split personality.
Each network could then broadcast the camera shots as it wished, showing both candidates on a split screen, for example.
Last week, a British parliamentary committee added a long and lively report about Murdoch's earlier obfuscation before it and concluded, in a split verdict, that Murdoch was not a "fit and proper" person to have a broadcast license.
