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Announcing their 2003-04 schedules in New York City last week, TV executives said that next fall they will not resort to cheap reality stunts in midseason. All six broadcast networks will rise on the strength of a slew of creative new hits. And a special attachment will allow you to print $20 bills from your cable...
...last public mention of Aziz Saleh Numan - the King of Diamonds in the US deck of most-wanted Iraqis - came on March 24. It was only days after U.S. forces launched the war. In a broadcast apparently intended to show that Saddam was still in charge, the "Voice of Youth Radio,? a station run by Uday, Saddam's eldest son, reported that the Iraqi president met with Numan, and Republican Guard chief Qusay Hussein, another of Saddam's sons...
...repeat, from the monologue to guests MR. T, Richard Lewis and Johnny Knoxville--even the movie-promo clips. "In some of the shots you'll see a hand come in and adjust a head or something," says O'Brien. "It may be the least professional clay animation ever broadcast." If the fake Conan is a hit, can a real, live Craig Kilborn be far behind...
...Angell likes to skirt the edges of the diamond: he keeps a lonely big-league scout company as he roves bedraggled backwoods ball parks in search of talent, he hunts down the aging grandmaster Bob Gibson in retirement, and he joins Shakespeare-quoting baseball announcer Tim McCarver in the broadcast booth. The pieces are arranged to follow the chronology of the season rather than of the century, a configuration that doesn't make sense until you start reading, and some of the best writing comes at the beginning, in the chapters covering the meaningless, sun-soaked overture of spring training...
...money that helps buy such mercy. Alumni open their wallets when the alma mater fields a champion. And the TV networks, which pay billions for college sports (CBS is paying $6 billion over 11 years to broadcast NCAA basketball) can make winners flush. The fact that Harrick won a national title at UCLA may have meant more to Georgia than his T&E arithmetic...