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1938 N.Y. Times 15 May x. 10/1 The Radio City tele-studios..will supply the program.

1942 O. E. Dunlap Future of Television vi. 80 The excitement of watching an actual event in progress compensated for any blur or foggy effects, caused chiefly by the tele-eyes' lack of depth and focus.

1948 Billboard 7 Feb. 3/4 The three top talent agencies..are now engaged in a free-for-all fight for tele business... The firms are battling..to sew up television rights.

1954 Sun (Baltimore) 5 Feb. (B ed.) 8/1 The tele-version..reflected both the assets and faults of the original.

1955 House & Garden Apr. 70/1 Yellow appears again on the back of the black-seated telechair.

1957 Economist 19 Oct. 226/1 ‘Tele-courses’ [in the United States] have in some cases completely replaced conventional classes.

1957 P. Wildeblood Main Chance 54 Ginny had..blossomed out into a quite new kind of star: the Telepersonality.

1967 Daily Tel. 22 Mar. (Colour Suppl.) 27/1 A few swinging teleclerics try vainly to up-date God's image.

1967 Which? Oct. 290/1 Telepundits donned ceremonial expressions of awe.

1983 Listener 22 Sept. 28/3 This was also the week of The Godfather, in Coppola's long tele-version, played on BBC1 at 9.25 pm. every week-night but Wednesday.

1992 M. Blonsky Amer. Mythologies (1993) xv. 359 Video is everywhere and we are tele-spectators, even on the street.

1997 Times 31 Oct. 33/2 Tony Hancock is a revered figure among aficionados of telecomedy.

2004 Financial Times 11 Nov. 15/2 The subject is ugly; the style is tele-realism circa 1970.

2006 Sydney Morning Herald (Nexis) 6 Dec. 17 Too many tele-chefs persist in adding huge doses of ego to every recipe.