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  2. High-definition television in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The first public HDTV broadcast was of the launch of the Space Shuttle Discovery and John Glenn's return to space; that broadcast was made possible in part by the Harris Corporation. [3] The first commercial broadcast of a local sporting event in HD was during Major League Baseball's Opening Day on March 31, 1998, the Texas Rangers against the ...

  3. Aloha from Hawaii via Satellite - Wikipedia

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    On September 4, the final day of Presley's 59-show engagement at the Las Vegas Hilton, Parker announced at a press conference that the live NBC television special, Aloha from Hawaii, would take place in January 1973 in Hawaii. [15] Parker had the idea in February 1972, when he saw the live broadcast of Richard Nixon's visit to China. Parker ...

  4. Major League Baseball on the radio - Wikipedia

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    The Liberty Broadcasting System operated solely through recreations of games, because live games were too expensive. [24] Gordon McLendon broadcast games throughout the South from 1948 until 1952, when new blackout regulations forced him to stop. [21] [25] [26] The Mutual Broadcasting System also broadcast a Game of the Day in the 1950s. [21] [27]

  5. South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands - Wikipedia

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    Murphy, Robert Cushman – The Penguins of South Georgia. Ovstedal, DO and RI Lewis Smith – Lichens of Antarctica and South Georgia: A Guide to Their Identification and Ecology. Poncet, Sally and Crosbie, Kim. A visitor's guide to South Georgia : the essential guide for any visitor. (2nd edition ed.). Princeton, New Jersey. ISBN 978-0691156583.

  6. Live television - Wikipedia

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    Live television is a television production broadcast in real-time, as events happen, in the present. In a secondary meaning, it may refer to streaming television where all viewers watch the same stream simultaneously, rather than watching video on demand.

  7. Grit (TV network) - Wikipedia

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    Grit is an American free-to-air television network owned by the Scripps Networks subsidiary of the E. W. Scripps Company. [4] The network features classic westerns, both TV series and films.

  8. Information war during the Russo-Georgian War - Wikipedia

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    The Russian government claimed on 9 August that Ukraine had encouraged the "ethnic cleansing" in South Ossetia. [70] [71] [72] Deputy Chief of General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation Anatoliy Nogovitsyn claimed on 15 August that Ukrainian diplomatic license plates were found in the Georgian military warehouses which granted unlimited access to the territories of Abkhazia ...

  9. South Sandwich Islands - Wikipedia

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    The territory of "South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands" was formed in 1985; [2] previously, both archipelagos had been governed as part of the Falkland Islands Dependencies. On 10 February 2008, an earthquake of magnitude 6.5 on the Richter Scale had its epicenter 205 km south-southeast of Bristol Island . [ 3 ]