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Floats were pulled by horses until 1939, when NBC broadcast the parade for the first time. The parade was suspended between 1942-1944 when the balloons were recycled into 650 lbs. of rubber and donated to the war effort. New Yorkers were so overjoyed by the return of the parade in 1945 that over 2 million people turned out for the event...
...restart the following year owes much to Wilman and Clarkson, who quit the show in 1999 after just over a decade fronting it. Over beers in a London pub, the two sketched the show's current format: out went the string of turgid, outside-broadcast pieces to camera. In came a cavernous studio. Fresh faces were added. A mystery racing driver, permanently hidden beneath overalls and a crash helmet and known only as "the Stig," injected character into the show. And while Top Gear used to dwell on "What's a car like?" says Clarkson, these days it's "What...
...1990s, Cuban co-founded the company that would become Broadcast.com, which started as a web site to access live sports games online. The company went on to broadcast other content - including Bill Clinton's testimony in the Monica Lewinsky affair and a Victoria's Secret fashion show. Cuban and his partner took Broadcast.com public and sold it to Yahoo! in 1999 for $5.7 billion in stock...
...line between the impossible and the inevitable seemed to fade for the second time in a week. Many of the students had come to school Wednesday after going to the voting booths with their parents, while others had stayed out late to listen to Obama's victory speech broadcast over loudspeakers near 125th Street. That same day they wrote letters to the president-elect. "I want to change things, too", wrote Fortune Nbumbo, 7. Tatiana Jones, 9, told Obama, "You open the door not just for me, but for everybody." For the students at FLI, the definition of leadership...
...event was hosted by Cambridge Forum, a local public affairs radio program, and was recorded for later broadcast on National Public Radio...