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...Their combined audience share rose slightly last season, reversing a long downward trend caused by cable. The advertising market is more active than it has been in years: revenue from the summertime "up- front" selling season reached a record high $4.4 billion. The broadcast networks, dismissed as dinosaurs not long ago, are suddenly hot properties on Wall Street; rumors that one or another of the Big Three is about to be sold seem to be cropping up almost weekly...
...apparent good tidings, however, mask a host of troubles as the fall season gets under way. Fox has thrown a fresh scare into the other networks, stealing several major-market affiliates as well as CBS's Sunday-afternoon pro-football franchise. The number of alternatives, on both cable and broadcast stations, keeps growing, and the remote control has made them easier than ever to find. Indeed, the networks' recent ratings turnabout was due largely to special events like the Winter Olympics, and there's no guarantee the audience erosion won't resume this fall...
...documentaries who knows the strike will most likely only add to the interest in Baseball, his eagerly awaited nine-part history of the national pastime. More than four years in the making, Burns' first mini-series since The Civil War (which set all-time viewing records when it was broadcast on pbs in September 1990) was carefully scheduled so that it would air in the sweet spot of the baseball season: on consecutive nights (with a two-day weekend break) starting Sept. 18, just as pennant fever was heating up but before the play-offs and World Series. Now, with...
Speculation about Kim's future has grown rapidly over recent days. First, anti-Kim Jong Il leaflets appeared around the diplomatic quarter in well- policed Pyongyang. Then an official radio broadcast ostensibly supported Kim's succession as the national leader but may have dropped a hint of a possible power struggle. If the succession "failed to be resolved correctly," it warned, "acts of betrayal by ambitious people" could bring disaster to the party and the revolution. Finally, Japanese press reports said Kim had turned down an invitation to Beijing...
...somber progression, the names floated over the air and across the ocean. Pola Alvarez, Jaime Diaz, Orlando Garcia, Ernesto Molina Sosa. For 95 minutes, until he became too hoarse to continue, Miami radio personality Tomas Garcia Fuste broadcast a list of 1,793 Cubans who fled their country last week only to wind up at Guantanamo Bay Naval Station. For listeners on Castro's island, the roll call provided welcome assurance that their loved ones had at least not perished in the treacherous Florida Straits...