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...million Amount NBC paid to broadcast the Games, up from $545 million for the 2002 Winter Games...
...Starr Rink, and tomorrow night it will enter Cornell’s infamously hostile Lynah Rink, which has boasted 77 consecutive sellouts. The fact that the game coincides with the Big Red’s senior night celebration will only further electrify the crowd. The game will be nationally broadcast by CSTV, but it remains to be seen whether the traditional fish toss at Harvard—for which fans are subject to ejection and Cornell possibly penalized—can be curbed. Laughed Donato, “I don’t think there are any good scenarios when...
...autobiography of former Harvard student Elizabeth Murray commenced filming in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Murray’s book about her struggles as an adolescent living on the streets, entitled Breaking Waters, was picked up by Hyperion Press and quickly adapted into a Lifetime movie, which became the most watched broadcast in Lifetime’s history. And in 2000, Harvard student Brooke Ellison ’00 was offered a book deal in her senior year and was soon approached by Christopher Reeve with a proposal for a movie based on her life as a paraplegic...
...sensation of state-owned TV in Russia is an 87-year-old dissident with a juicy backstory. A mini-series based on ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN'S once banned 1968 anti-Soviet novel, First Circle, attracted 15 million viewers a night, beating out even a broadcast of Terminator 3. After being imprisoned by Stalin, exiled to Vermont and triumphantly welcomed home in 1994, the reclusive writer has not always been in the forefront of Russians' hearts. Dismissed as pass, he endured the indignity of seeing his talk show canceled because of low ratings. But the success of the mini-series, for which...
...station IDs recorded by N.W.A.-era Dr. Dre, De La Soul, and other rap icons.” Ironically, Harvard’s foray into hip-hop ended just as the genre reached its cultural zenith. Hip-hop music was no longer prominently featured in WHRB’s broadcast lineup by the mid-90s—the era that saw Tupac Shakur, Notorious B.I.G., and the “Gangsta-Funk” aesthetic attain success as pop music—and “The Dark Side” faded into obscurity. Jacoby speculates that the rapid chart...