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...probability, no one was tuned into the New England Sports Network's (NESN) broadcast of the game either, especially since Channel 38 was going to broadcast the B.U.-Northeastern game...
Advertisements are necessary to keep television stations solvent so that they can broadcast more hockey games. But creating commercial breaks in ordinarily fluid games is artificial and just plain annoying. And that reduces sports to one long excuse for a commercial...
Rather has never seemed completely comfortable in the anchor chair. A courtly and painstakingly polite man in person, he seems stiff and tense on camera. Even his attempts at spontaneity and good humor look programmed. One week he tried ending his broadcast with the sign-off "Courage"; widespread derision forced him to drop it after three nights. Walter Cronkite, Rather's predecessor, was calm and reassuring, an avuncular figure to the nation. Rather seems tightly coiled and uneasy, an eccentric cousin capable of almost anything...
...from Senator Ted Kennedy. The ambitious Murdoch has been buying up television stations, hoping to create a fourth network to compete against CBS, NBC and ABC. He became an American citizen to qualify for ownership, but he knows that by FCC rule he cannot own a newspaper and a broadcast station in the same city, as he does in Boston and New York...
...weekend before the broadcast, CBS began airing promotions for the Bush-Rather interview and calling political writers to flag for them the "first interview on Iran-contra that Bush has done with any network." The day of the interview Rather had three one-hour rehearsals with the six people involved in the broadcast. He was coached as if he were a candidate preparing for a debate or a pugilist preparing for a fight, rather than a journalist going into an interview. Howard Rosenberg, a producer from CBS's Washington bureau, played Bush. "We knew it was going...