Sentences with phrase «of air station»

The image depicted is a panoramic view of a portion of the Air Station.

While the airframes have evolved, the primary mission of Air Station San Francisco has remained unchanged for six decades, maritime Search and Rescue along 300 miles of coastline from Point Conception to Fort Bragg.

Not exact matches

The water line is higher than the roofs of some houses, leaving them completely submerged, said Commander Jim Spitler, commanding officer of Coast Guard Air Station Houston.

Fraley and her sister Ada Wyn, part of a massive influx of women into the U.S. workforce during WWII, went to work at a Naval Air Station in Alameda, Calif., after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, according to the Times.

Of those stations, 12 are expected to simply go off the air, another 30 will shift to lower frequency VHF channels, and the rest are shifting to digitally sharing another station's UHF spectrum.

Vero Beach served as an important Naval air station and base during World War II, and eventually became home to many of the soldiers after the war was over.

TV stations going dark will go off the air within 90 days of getting their auction winnings.

The Environmental Protection Agency regulates the air with their own equipment, but the Aclima blog says that its tools can provide us a more detailed picture of our immediate surroundings — what we breathe in as soon as we step out of a subway station.

Assessing the size is also difficult: even though the perspective might be a factor here, the object seems to be smaller than the F - 16s, but probably much larger than a micro-drone as the bird - sized Perdix drones, 103 of those, launched from three F / A -18 F Super Hornets, took part in one of the world's largest micro-drone swarms over the skies of Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake, California on Oct. 25, 2016.

7th Bomb Wing: Stationed at Dyess Air Force Base, Texas, it's one of only two B - 1B Lancer bomber wings in the Air Force.

8th Fighter Wing: Stationed at Kunsan Air Base, Republic of Korea, the wing flies the F - 16 Fighting Falcon.

5th Bomb Wing: Stationed at Minot Air Force Base, North Dakota, it's one of the only two B - 52H Stratofortress wings in the Air Force.

The US Postal Service delivers periodicals at a discount rate, and the Federal Communication Commission's television station licensing requirements include a vague but meaningful «public interest» standard that is generally held to require both the production of local newscasts and the airing of major national news events.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — From Launch Complex 17 here at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, many of NASA's robotic planetary missions blasted off.

Missile strikes on Syrian government bases overnight killed dozens of pro-regime forces, raising the risks of a wider regional war just weeks after Israel was blamed for hitting an air station in the country used by Iranian elite forces.

Moon Express occupies Launch Complexes 17 & 18 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, adjacent to the Kennedy Space Center on Florida's Space Coast, where many of the robots that explored new worlds and unlocked the secrets of our solar system began their journeys.

Shotwell said SpaceX does not need to start use of Launch Complex 39A at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida, spaceport to help work through its backlog.

In Texas, Starbucks partners (employees) assemble care packages for the members of the U.S. Air Force 59th Medical Wing stationed in Afghanistan and serve complementary coffee and pastries to the U.S. Army 32nd Medical Brigade at its monthly mentor motorcycle rides.

In an official release published on the U.S. Air Force official website, Lt. Col. Josh Koslov, squadron commander of the 43rd Expeditionary Electronic Attack Squadron, is quoted as saying, «When the Compass Call is up on station supporting our Iraqi allies we are denying ISIL's ability to command and control their forces.»

The aircraft went down one mile east of the runway on landing approach to Boca Chica Field, Naval Air Station Key West when the accident occurred.

On that fateful morning, I was in Scottsdale, Arizona on the corner of Hayden and Indian School at a gas station putting air in my tire when I heard the news over the radio.

Since the late 1960s there has been a rapid growth of independently syndicated evangelical or fundamentalist programs which purchase their air - time from local stations and raise support from their audience.

The Fox network could not have existed three decades ago because the Federal Communications Commission still used the Fairness Doctrine and equal time rules to require stations to provide time — even free time — to air all sides of issues of public importance.

Presidential debates, increased public affairs, innovations in news coverage, fewer commercials on children «s programs, more female and minority on - air employment, greater minority ownership of stations, «free speech messages» in many cities, greater responsiveness to viewer «s letters, and a temporary reduction in violent programs — all were brought about through the efforts of the broadcast reform groups.9.

In 1970, the state of Mississippi banned Sesame Street from being aired on their local PBS stations, because black and brown kids were playing with white kids, and this would have offended some of the families of that state.

To stay on the air, public broadcasting stations were forced resort to year - round fund raising campaigns, to accept forms of «underwriter recognition» that looked suspiciously like commercials, and to tailor their programming schedule to whatever corporate underwriters would support.

However, the evangelical and fundamentalist groups were more or less excluded from this agreement, although the Southern Baptists, Mormons and others were given a modest amount of air time, and some televangelists were able to buy time, mostly on radio and non-network TV stations.

Networks and stations should be required by U.S. law to devote a percentage of their air time, production budgets, and facilities to children's programming.

During the Great War a group of American naval aviators were stationed on a barren island off the northwest coast of France where, amid lonely and desolate conditions, they carried on their hazardous scouting in the air.

When radio station WABC in New York dismissed a popular talk show host, Bob Grant, who refused to stop making racist remarks on the air, some of his colleagues complained that he was being censored.

In that year, the FCC released a programming statement in which they concluded, under a good deal of pressure from particular groups) that no public - interest basis was to be served by distinguishing between sustaining - time programs (those broadcast on free air - time) and commercially sponsored programs in evaluating a station's performance in the public interest.

And three of the stations actually booked on - air demos.

This change in FCC policy did not have an immediately dramatic effect on the nature of religious programming; however, it effectively changed the structure within which religious programming was to be considered by releasing stations from any regulatory obligation to provide free air - time for the broadcast of religious programs.

American troops are stationed in 75 countries; each branch of the armed services has its own air force; and in the next year we may learn if the U.S. can pull off what it has been preparing to do since the end of the cold war: fight two regional wars at the same time.

The larger, established, mainline denominations generally held the view that broadcasters should provide time on the air for a balanced presentation of religious views, roughly representing the proportion of various religious groups in the community, even if this required stations to supply the time without charge, and that this was consistent with the understandings reached between Congress and the broadcasters when the allocation of nonprofit stations was defeated.

Nevertheless, a number of local councils of churches and other broad - based religious groups have managed to get a significant airing of news from a religious perspective on their local stations.

Seventy - five years ago, on Sunday, September 15, 1940, Winston Churchill and his wife Clementine were driven from the prime minister's country house, Chequers, to the nearby village of Uxbridge: a Royal Air Force station and the headquarters from which Air Vice-Marshal Keith Park was directing the RAF's No. 11 Group against the onslaught of the German Luftwaffe in southern England.

Seventy - five years ago, on Sunday, September 15, 1940, Winston Churchill and his wife Clementine were driven from the prime minister's country house, Chequers, to the nearby village of Uxbridge: a Royal Air Force station and the headquarters from which Air Vice-Marshal Keith Park was directing....

One of the station's anchors, Shepard Smith, recently launched into a frustrated live on - air rant.

Networks and stations should be required by law to devote a percentage of their air time, production budgets, and facilities to children «s programming.

Television specials and interviews aired on the local news stations about the grand work that was being done to beautify this once - decrepit downtown block of the city.

It is possible that stations which did not accept payment for air - time for religious programs reflected a greater concern for public - service programming and therefore presented a wider representation of other programming such as network and local programs.

Another effect of the growth of paid - time religious programs is the steady increase in the number of stations that now see religion primarily as a commercial venture and for which payment for air - time has become the dominant principle in the broadcasting of religion.

When statements were made on radio and television that slandered individuals, or strong positions about issues of public importance were aired which needed balance and rebuttal, it was possible for ordinary citizens to demand that the station provide time for reply.

We have noted already that the Broadcast Institute study in 1971 identified a fairly even level of religious programming across the country, indicating that station managers were not only influenced by the demand for air - time for religious programs, but also by peer example.

In 1971 the highest «average airings per station» of religious programs were found to be in a sequence of regions in the south - east, east - central, mid-central, and north - west regions of the country.

This study found also that stations which provided only free air - time for religious programs tended to broadcast more religious programs during the week of the survey than did stations which sold air - time for programs (an average of 6.08 programs per station compared to 4.51 programs per station).

There appear to be three main reasons for the concentration of religious programs on Sundays: (1) Sunday is the traditional day of Christian worship and therefore seemed most appropriate for Christian broadcasts; (2) Christian broadcasts on the networks were originally conceived as alternatives for those, such as shut - ins, who could not attend regular services at a church; (6)(3) Sunday morning was the period of lowest audience for broadcasters and therefore was the least commercially damaging for stations in fulfilling their FCC obligations by providing free air - time for religious broadcasts.

Table 7.2 presents the average number of stations which aired the network religious programs during the 1970s.

In 1977, another survey of station managers found that 80.3 percent of television stations found the selling of air - time for religious broadcasts acceptable.