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"Next Thursday you're invited to watch Rising Tide's live coverage of a gala tribute In salute to Ronald Reagan / Host Haley Barbour joins special guest Lady Margaret Thatcher in celebrating The former president's 83rd birthday / Ticket's are $1000 a plate / But you can see the event free on G.O.P. TV!" - Announcement of a TV-show in 1983. This weekly show was hosted by Haley Barbour, the chairman of the Republican National Committee. The sample was taken from the Channel 4 documentary "Late Licence - United States of Television" where Laura Kightlinger examines TV in the United States of America. G.O.P.-TV is a republican TV-channel and functions as mouthpiece of the republican national committee, or 'g.o.p.': 'grand old party'.