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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...
...winning five Emmy awards. The banner could go on to say (but does not), "Sorry about that nearly-canceling-you-at-the-end-of-last-season business!" Being the funniest show on TV goes only so far, after all, when you're No. 116 in the 2003-04 broadcast ratings. So when Arrested's name was called out as Outstanding Comedy Series in September, besting contenders like Everybody Loves Raymond and Sex and the City, "it was like somebody punched us in the stomach," says cast member Tony Hale. "Punched in a good...
What caused the Sinclair Broadcast Group, whose top executives have been large contributors to President George W. Bush and the Republican Party, to seemingly backtrack on plans to air a documentary attacking Senator John Kerry? Stolen Honor, in which some Vietnam veterans assail Kerry's antiwar activism, had reportedly been scheduled to air on 62 Sinclair affiliates. Instead, on 40 affiliates Sinclair aired A POW Story on Friday, a "news special" that drew on portions of Stolen Honor but also delved into the way politics and the media influence one another. Sinclair denies any about-face, saying that the company...
...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...
...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...