Word: broadcasted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...deal likely to create a giant broadcast marketplace, QVC Network, headed by former film mogul Barry Diller, offered to take control of its only serious competitor, the Home Shopping Network, for an estimated $1.2 billion in stock...
Breaking ranks with the other networks, ABC will allow Continental Cablevision, the nation's third largest cable operator, to carry ABC-owned broadcast stations without paying it a fee; in return, the cable company has agreed to carry and pay for a new cable channel, ESPN2, a spin-off of ESPN, which ABC's parent company owns...
...local activism, even solo advocacy, has paid off in the face of adversity. Three years ago, John Broussard, a former Air Force medic, stunned the tiny Louisiana farming town of Welsh when he announced on local TV that he was gay and had AIDS. After the broadcast, his home was pelted with rocks. Local doctors refused to treat him. Baptist neighbors crowed that he was going to hell, and his parents, he says, "went through more rejection by friends in one year than they ever had in their entire lives...
...resumed limited food distribution in southern Mogadishu after two weeks of fighting between its forces and those of Somali General Mohammed Farrah Aidid. It also issued wanted posters for the fugitive warlord, and put up a reward for his capture. Aidid, meanwhile, taunted his pursuers in a broadcast carried by NBC and the Voice of America. "You know," he said, "I am here in the city of Mogadishu and I am protected by God and my people...
...card used by David Letterman on his last Late Night broadcast, Friday, June...