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With basketball's popularity surging in China, Heidi Ueberroth, 40, is taking the game beyond Beijing. As the NBA's top global marketing and media exec, she recently brokered deals to broadcast games for the first time in four inland regions, including Chongqing (pop. 32 million) and Inner Mongolia (pop. 24 million). She also struck a deal with China Mobile, which will offer NBA highlights to 231 million cell-phone subscribers, and added eight new marketing partners in China, like video-game giant EA Sports and computer maker Tong Fang. This season Chinese fans will be able to watch...
ARRESTED. WILLIAM DAVIS, 33, convicted sex offender and one of the FBI's most-wanted fugitives, currently facing charges of molesting three Indiana boys last year; two days after talk-show host Oprah Winfrey broadcast his photo on her show and offered $100,000 for tips leading to his capture; in Fargo...
...Academy Award--nominated documentary, Genghis Blues, in 1999; of complications from diabetes and pancreatitis; in San Francisco. Pena, who lived off royalties from his song Jet Airliner, a Top 10 hit for the Steve Miller Band in 1977, happened upon Tuvan music in the 1980s on a shortwave-radio broadcast out of Moscow...
...that is, except the superhuman Murrow, who uses his position as the face of CBS’ popular “See it Now” news broadcast to air McCarthy’s abuses to millions of viewers. His fastidiously fact-checked exposes are rewarded by all-too-familiar accusations of bias, but as played by Strathairn, Murrow is far too hard-boiled to crack under such intimidation tactics...
...newsroom presents a considerably more noble alternate reality, though an equally chaotic one. Its reporters are constantly being hassled by intruders—managerial types with their eyes on the bottom line, jingoistic pundits, and dunderheaded military commanders who demand to review footage before it is broadcast. Watching Murrow and producer Fred W. Friendly (played by Clooney) fearlessly rebuff these would-be defilers of the fourth estate is enough to make a college journalist break a sweat...