Those televisions are all broadcasting reports that voters in Dade County, Fla., have voted to overturn a local gay-rights ordinance, giving momentum to a backlash whose most visible public face belongs to Anita Bryant, an erstwhile singer and orange-juice pitchwoman.
The country's proliferating cable news channels (absent the largest, Geo, which has been suspended temporarily for earlier broadcasting reports that the military found offensive) instantly rolled out colorful BREAKING NEWS and nation-at-war graphics that make Fox News look restrained.
ESPN, who were broadcasting the match, reported that he was not breathing as he was taken into the tunnel.
On Monday, Ninwa Al Ghad, a satellite channel broadcasting out of Mosul, reported that the central library had been burned with the reported loss of Iraqi newspapers from the beginning of the 20th century, as well as maps, books and collections from the Ottoman period.
As the anger over Monday night's scoring grew, and the Canadian skating federation lodged an official protest, some organizations -- most prominently NBC News, whose network is broadcasting the Olympics -- reported that Marie-Reine Le Gougne, the French judge, had confessed to colleagues she had received pressure.
Sinclair Broadcast Group wants to show the programme on its 62 television affiliates, which, the Democrats argue, breaks political-broadcasting rules.See articleScientists reported that an observatory in Hawaii had recorded unusually strong increases in the level of atmospheric carbon dioxide, the main greenhouse gas, in 2002 and 2003.
And it is difficult to think of any cases of US media doing what Teleamazonas did: broadcasting false reports that appear to be intended to destabilise the government.
Since then, further allegations against Savile have emerged during a widespread police investigation, and Newsnight had to apologise after broadcasting a report that led to a Tory peer being wrongly identified as a paedophile.
The BBC reported that the broadcasting company would be "vigorously defending" the claim.
The Mirror reported that, despite outcry from the RSPCA, the broadcasting watchdog Ofcom "didn't believe the scene was degrading" - not to the boar, at least.
Life magazine reported that in 1947 there were 17 television stations in the United States broadcasting to 136,000 sets.
