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...much fun I forgot the reason why the America’s Junior Miss council flew us down there—two nights of preliminary competition and a final night broadcast on national TV (the PAX network...
...official told TIME that the CIA received an intelligence report that one of Saddam's sons was either killed or seriously injured; a second intelligence report cited sources who saw Saddam carried out of the rubble on a stretcher. In the wake of the U.S. strike, Iraqi television broadcast what it claimed was a live statement from Saddam that purported to show he had survived. Some viewers wondered whether the haggard, bespectacled figure was actually the dictator or one of his body doubles, though intelligence experts concluded that it was probably Saddam. Still, that did not rule out the possibility...
...established a lot of records. It has been seen by more than 1 billion people. But one of the show's biggest contributions to the entertainment world was something that happened before we ever went on the air. In the early '50s, most TV shows were performed for live broadcast in New York City, and stations around the country played a kinescope, a copy of the show filmed from a TV screen, which wasn't of good quality. But Lucy and Desi were expecting their first child, and they didn't want to move to New York. So Desi...
Over the years, China's televised newscasts have conspicuously avoided one thing: the news. In 2001, for instance, the attack on New York City's World Trade Center reached mainland airwaves a full day after the buildings had collapsed. But the second Gulf War is giving Chinese broadcast journalists a chance to redeem themselves. Two China Central Television (CCTV) channels are offering around-the-clock coverage, while others are showing large blocks of war news, mostly live and largely free of governmental interference. "We're washing a bad taste out of our mouths," says a CCTV producer proudly...
...Even the Oscars went on, with 33 million viewers grateful for the opportunity to mindlessly watch Hollywood pat itself on the back for four hours in subdued dresses (J. Lo wore a toga), with the usual $22,000 dollar-gift basket presenters, while the local news station interspersed the broadcast with announcements asking residents to donate sunscreen to the troops. At least the Academy patted the right part of the back this year, praising The Pianist, a war memoir that is perhaps the only unquestionably appropriate entertainment this week...