Broadcasting History
Long before Netflix, in 1998 a Hong Kong company invested $1.5 billion in video on demand, pioneering this kind of service
What is streaming?
The website for this brand claims Hawaii eats 7 million cans of its products every year
What is Spam?
Chest pain, pain radiating down the left arm & jaw pain can be signs that you're having this, a myocardial infarction
What is a heart attack?
Poisonous "pit" snake (5)
What is a viper?
Basketball legend Jordan and Olympic legend Phelps
What is Michael?
In 1991 this young broadcast TV network became the first in the U.S. to run a commercial for condoms
What is FOX?
An Italian chef's name was changed to a more phonetic spelling to be packaged for U.S. consumers as this brand
What is Chef Boyardee?
A rupture of this tendon may sound like a gunshot and can bring about pain of mythical proportions
What is the Achilles tendon?
Student speechmaker at graduation (13)
What is valedictorian?
Yankees slugger Judge and NFL QB Rodgers
What is Aaron?
In 1974 this Broadcasting System, Inc. shortened things up & became CBS Inc.
What is Columbia?
Campbell Soup executive Donald E. Goerke was known as "the Daddy-O" of this brand
What are SpaghettiOs?
Severe pain is a complication of this type of anemia characterized by and named for its misshapen red blood cells
What is sickle cell anemia?
Bloodsucking and parasitic, like Dracula (8)
What is vampiric?
MLB slugger Rodriguez with 696 HRs, and NHL sharpshooter Ovechkin with 921 goals
What is Alex?
In 1946 "Faraway Hill," about a widow in love with a man engaged to another woman, brought this genre to network television
What is soap opera?
Don Prudencio Unanue bought this 4-letter name for his canned goods & liked how it sounded like a Spanish artist
What is Goya?
Men are 20 times more likely than women to get this disease that can be a real pain in the big toe
What is gout?
Word for word (8)
What is verbatim?
Swedish NHL defenseman Hedman and French NBA forward Wembenyama
What is Victor?
A 1934 act of Congress established this agency, initially to regulate the radio, telephone & telegraph industries
What is the FCC (Federal Communications Commission)?
This man hired Henry Ginaca to make a machine that could trim & core pineapple & more than tripled its canning production
What is Dole?
More common in women than men, these swollen and twisted veins can be a real pain in the leg
What are varicose veins?
The left-hand page of a book or manuscript (5)
What is the verso?
5x LPGA Tour winner Wie and 2x Olympic medalist figure skater Kwan
What is Michelle?