The Shah delivered a nationwide television broadcast, pledging that he would go ahead with the liberalization program.
And he and the acting president made a formal joint broadcast pledging constitutional reform to devolve power to the regions and bolster the status of Russian as an official language in areas where it was widely spoken.
In his media and technology agenda, President Obama took up the cause of reform by committing to "diversity in the ownership of broadcast media," and pledging to "promote the development of new media outlets for expression of diverse viewpoints".
And Kennedy defended his action by saying that once the Germans admitted to surrendering in the broadcast, the pledge he gave to Brigadier General Frank Allen, the public relations officer, in the presence of the other reporters was null and void.
Now we know why the president has ducked his campaign pledge to broadcast such negotiations on C-Span.
In addition to the customary practice of detaining dissidents during a Presidential visit, the Chinese government added an extra slight by ignoring its pledge to broadcast Obama's town-hall meeting with students, and by clouding the visit with an ill-timed burst of hectoring about the global effects of American economic trouble.
Channel 4 also today pledged to broadcast the equivalent of at least one new documentary in peak time each weekday - a minimum of 260 hours across the year.
Professional athletes from 12 leagues, including football and baseball, have volunteered to promote the message of "60 Minutes of Play a Day" through public service announcements; media companies including the Walt Disney Company and NBC have pledged to broadcast them.
A sweaty cat's cradle of arms and Dictaphones strained to get closer, but only those nearest heard the pledge that will be broadcast repeatedly if the smoke swirling around Rupp and his coach Alberto Salazar erupts into fire.
The KCET 1997 documentary More Things That Aren't Here Anymore has a segment on Muntz and is broadcast by the station regularly during pledge periods.
