Sentences with phrase «television airwaves»

It was only in 1977 that the U.S. Supreme Court opened television airwaves to attorneys for the first time, and law firms found early success with the old «talking head» strategy.

A Senator — and totally unnecessary character — is wailing on the television airwaves about memory detection, and John stumbles upon the perfect opportunity to get his career back on track.

Terrorists also hijack the television airwaves and televise threats.

(CNN)- Mark Sanford's besieged congressional campaign is being outspent almost 3 - 1 on the television airwaves by his Democratic foes, a media - buying source tracking the South Carolina House campaign told CNN.

Spitzer, who is financing his own campaign, has had the television airwaves to himself for roughly two weeks in an effort to define the campaign on his own terms before commercial breaks become swamped with ad buys from the city's many mayoral candidates.

Fogarty beat Carcieri onto the television airwaves with an ad that seeks to make the election a referendum on corruption.

Republican groups — which have mostly sat on the sidelines in House contests this cycle until recently — have reserved nearly $ 12 million on the television airwaves in competitive races through Election Day, according to two sources tracking ad buys in House contests across the country.

Not exact matches

Tobacco manufacturers once had relatively free reign, with even doctors starring in commercials, on the airwaves before being banned from television and radio advertising in 1970 when President Richard Nixon signed the Public Health Cigarette Smoking Act into law.

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that a startup Internet company has to pay broadcasters when it takes television programs from the airwaves and allows subscribers to watch them on smartphones and other portable devices.

By dealing with representative groups, the networks also avoided the problems of trying to manage the numerous individual denominations and independent religious groups, all of whom wanted to gain free access to television's airwaves.

The nature of religious television in America can be seen to be a function of the interaction of four main players; changes over the past decades have come about because of changes in the relative power and relationships of the four following players: (1) the regulatory agencies of the federal government, which, through the legislative process, provide the structure within which interaction inside the television industry takes place; (2) the television industry, primarily network and local station managements, which control the airwaves within the legislated structure; (3) the viewing public, which selects what it is that will be watched; and (4) the religious broadcasters who provide the material for broadcasts.

The adjudication of these factors and how they were to be represented to the public, though, has lain primarily with the television industry, which controls the airwaves and the content communicated through them.

This «Fairness Doctrine» has become the foundation of free speech on radio and television, and it has prevented many of the more blatant attempts by some broadcasters to use the public airwaves as nothing more than a sounding board for their own special views and interests.

The unspoken judgment trembled palpably on the airwaves as four powerful women» a television reporter, a Congressional representative, and two physicians» held at bay the lone male guest, himself a doctor.

The airwaves are held in trust for the public by radio and television broadcasters, and their licenses are regulated by government.

Christian television dominated the airwaves, and yet Christian lifestyle didn't emerge or change the context.

One of the justifications the paid - time religious broadcasters have given for their monopolizing of the airwaves, their displacement of other religious programs on television, and their commercializing of religion on television is that through such an approach they have been able to overcome the barriers that have restricted religious broadcasters who have been dependent on the goodwill of stations and networks.

The Clinton campaign is returning to the airwaves after a brief absence, buying roughly $ 175,000 worth of television advertising in Kentucky to air in the next week.

But these new television ads mark the committee's first major independent expenditures of the season — and the start of the campaign airwaves war that will only intensify through November.

Cuomo and the state Democratic Committee continue to blanket the airwaves with television ads and is beginning an upstate bus tour this weekend with his running mate, former Rep. Kathy Hochul.

Hochul and Corwin attacked each other over it, with both campaigns, parties and outside groups flooding the airwaves with television commercials.

And the race between Republican state Assemblywoman Jane Corwin, Democrat Kathleen Hochul, the Erie County clerk, and Jack Davis, a once - conservative Democrat who is running as a so - called tea party candidate, is becoming more and more a referendum on House Republican plans to alter Medicare, as both sides filling the airwaves with television ads attacking the other side over Medicare.

Hillary Clinton is taking to the airwaves to confront Donald Trump, airing her first television ad here in New York to challenge the Republican billionaire in hopes of strengthening her own bid for the Democratic presidential nomination.

Bowling Green, Kentucky (CNN)-- Rand Paul's wife made a rare public speaking appearance Wednesday to blast Kentucky Democratic Senate nominee Jack Conway for raising questions about Paul's faith in a controversial television ad still on the airwaves.

Two of the region's most hotly contested political races have taken to the airwaves with their first television commercials.

Clinton's campaign has reserved nearly $ 80 million in television advertising this fall, according to a senior aide, widening her lead over Trump on the airwaves.

BROWN HITS GRANITE STATE AIRWAVES... Former Sen. Scott Brown of Massachusetts will go up Monday with his first television commercial in his Republican Senate bid in neighboring New Hampshire.

The group, which is backing third - party candidate Doug Hoffman, calls Republican Dede Scozzafava and Democrat Bill Owens «two liberals» in a new television spot set to hit airwaves in parts of New York's 23rd district on Tuesday.

Those two groups have cultivated close ties to legislators and spent millions on political contributions, and in the past have defeated similar proposed cuts by saturating the airwaves with television commercials explaining their viewpoint.

Not only did he make television history with Seinfeld — one of the most popular sitcoms to ever grace the airwaves — but two years after the series ended, David made a stellar return with the hit HBO series Curb Your Enthusiasm.

With studios like Blumhouse (Get Out, Split, and the Insidious franchise) and A24 (The Witch, It Comes at Night) establishing distinct identities in the minds of moviegoers and television shows like American Horror Story, Bates Motel, and even Stranger Things spreading the genre elements across the airwaves — or, more likely, your laptop — it's difficult to deny that we're in the midst of an era of horror filmmaking that prizes subtext, mood, and tone over gore effects, elaborate kills, and jump - scares.

Cable television stations need product to fill their airwaves, and so the world therefore needs Jason Statham, who has made a career out of scowling, growling and looking great bald.

Outreach Through the Airwaves: Schools Bring Home Message With Television Some districts are using cable TV to reach out to their communities.

That's because education coverage of any type barely registered in newspapers and on news Web sites, on television news broadcasts, or on the radio airwaves in the first nine months of this year, according to the report, released here this week by the Brookings Institution.

Game of Thrones is probably the most popular television show on the airwaves right not, with the exception of The Walking Dead.

However, as more and more attorneys have taken to the airwaves via Television and Radio, the battle for your client's attention has become increasingly difficult.

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 8, 2007 — Trusted Choice is celebrating the New Year by hitting the airwaves with a brand new television commercial.