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...agreement with Comcast to form the U.S. Olympic Network, which will provide year-round coverage of Olympic sports. According to the USOC, the network will launch sometime after the 2010 Vancouver Games. One problem: the U.S. Olympic Network could compete with NBC, which is paying $2.2 billion to broadcast the 2010 and 2012 Olympics. The network accounts for roughly half of the IOC's global broadcast-rights fees, and NBC will surely be among the bidders for the 2014 and 2016 Olympics. Plus, NBC wanted the USOC to partner with its own cable network, Universal Sports, for Olympic programming...
...Phillips, who plans to sit down this weekend with Jackson's choreographer Kenny Ortega to "figure it out conceptually," envisions it as a singular "pay-per-broadcast vehicle...
...surprise of the memorial organizers, the children took front-row seats at an event broadcast live on every major network as well as around the world. And Paris' words made it abundantly clear that Jackson - a controversial subject in life and in death - was also someone's beloved father. (Hear TIME's top 10 Michael Jackson songs...
...Facebook has 200 million users to Twitter’s 25 million (that doesn’t include all the new registrations that undoubtedly resulted in June following the Iranian elections), the consensus is that the future of social networking lies in microblogging: short up-to-the-second messages broadcast to your friends and followers. The key part of this equation—and what equipped Twitter to be such a powerful means of spreading information in the fallout of the Iranian elections—is that “tweets” are both searchable and occur in real...
...bevy of luminaries paying their final homage to the globally celebrated star. Jennifer Hudson, Mariah Carey, John Mayer, Usher, Lionel Richie, Smokey Robinson and Stevie Wonder have all been announced as performers who will help bid Jackson farewell at L.A.'s Staples Center in a ceremony that will be broadcast live on all major networks and many cable channels as well as streamed live on websites from MySpace to MTV.com. Brooke Shields, Los Angeles Lakers star Kobe Bryant, Martin Luther King III and the Rev. Al Sharpton are also expected to take part. (Watch TIME's video "Appreciating Michael Jackson...