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...DIED. JOHN PEEL, 65, British disk jockey whose keen ear for new talent helped shape modern rock 'n' roll; while on holiday in Cuzco, Peru. Peel joined the BBC in 1967, the year Radio 1 was launched, and was the first DJ to broadcast songs by Jimi Hendrix, David Bowie and the Clash. He went on to help create an audience for punk and, later, for alternative bands like the Smiths and Nirvana. In the 1980s, he hosted the Peel Sessions, live performances by a range of acts, many of which became classic recordings. Described by friends as an eternal...
...course, we cannot cast blame solely on the corporations that broadcast to suit the best interests of their bottom line. Parents must take accountability as well, limiting the excessive amount of television today’s kids consume daily. But networks have a responsibility to their young viewers...
MARK HYMAN, vice president of Sinclair Broadcast Group's corporate relations, on why the company plans to air on its 62 stations a documentary attacking Kerry's antiwar activities of 30 years ago. Sinclair argues that the documentary is news coverage, which is exempt from federal equal-time rules...
...SINCLAIR BROADCAST GROUP, in a company statement last April, explaining why it refused to air a special edition of ABC's Nightline that consisted of reading the names and showing pictures of each of the 523 U.S. soldiers who had died in Iraq...
...three-on-three tournaments and founded the city's first high school basketball league, the Nike League, which has spread to 17 cities. At games, Rhoads blasted the recorded sound of cheering to encourage straitlaced fans to loosen up, and he arranged for the state-run television network to broadcast the finals nationally. The Chinese responded: sales through the 1990s picked up 60% a year. "Our goal was to hook kids into Nike early and hold them for life," says Rhoads, who now runs a Shanghai-based sports marketing company, Zou Marketing. Nike also hitched its wagon...