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...true since HBO was incinerating money. Levin knew he had to gamble, and in a move that foreshadowed a liking for big deals, he persuaded Time Inc.'s conservative board to burn another $7.5 million for a slot on the very first communications satellite so that HBO could be broadcast nationwide. "What do cable guys know about the space business?" skeptics on the board asked Levin. To them, space meant NASA: engineers with buzz cuts, white short-sleeved shirts and clip-on ties. How did this guy with the disco moustache and the Shaft-era hairdo plan on paying...
Like my over-tired toddler, the student body is spent. Our eyes are strained from scrutinizing textbooks, and our backs ache from remaining hunched over our computers. Our papers and tests weigh heavily on our minds, and the chilling weather (the lead story of practically every local news broadcast) oppresses us even further, forcing us to remain indoors. The efforts expended during reading period do not compare to the workload of the average investment banker, but we are certainly expending more mental energy than we do on a normal basis. University Health Services attempts to assuage student discontent with seminars...
...pace of how much [political] coverage on our broadcast is up, and we will continue to ratchet it up in the days before the two key contests," Halperin added...
...Millionaire of its era was The $64,000 Question, first broadcast by CBS on June 7, 1955. Producer Louis Cowan had dreamed up the idea and persuaded Revlon, without much difficulty, to sponsor it. The concept seemed promising: present ordinary Americans who happen to possess extraordinary expertise in a single field. Put these contestants through a series of questions that grow more difficult the more they win. After $4,000, contestants return each week to face a question that will double their money if they get it right. At $8,000, they are put in an isolation booth so that...
Passed on by broadcast networks before landing at HBO, The Sopranos is a show so good it gives TV a bad image, funnier than most sitcoms ("It'd be like What Ever Happened to Baby Janice? over there," Tony says when Pavarti/Janice offers to care for Livia) and far deeper and more complex than most "quality" dramas. And yet its greatest indictment of TV may be that there is nothing unique about the people who make the show. Chase, 50, is no wunderkind; he kicked around TV for decades, doing fine but hardly epochal work on The Rockford Files...