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...were traditionally funded by contributions from the major studios. But before the 25th Academy Awards, several of its primary financial supporters unexpectedly backed out.The Academy needed to secure another sponsor, or else to cancel the extravagance they’d planned. Just in time, RCA purchased the rights to broadcast the ceremony, and it was watched on NBC by the largest audience in the history of television at that time...
Televising the Oscars (the ceremonies had been broadcast on radio for some time) represented a convenient symbiosis. But the merger of film and television presented producers with a formidable challenge: how to create a program that would appeal to both the cinephile—deigning for one night to watch, shame of shames, television—and the devout TV viewer whose remote control happened to lead him there...
Yesterday’s Wireside Chat, which was co-organized by Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society and the Open Video Alliance organization, was broadcast live over the Internet and included questions for Lessig submitted through Twitter...
...girlfriend beater), John Mayer (N word user) and even the reclusive Florida Tiger (serial wife cheater) have all tried to navigate their way across the Boulevard of Remorse to the safe shoulder of public forgiveness. But it's still a big enough deal that when men apologize, it's broadcast live on TV. For some, national coverage is not enough. On Feb. 24, Akio Toyoda, the CEO of Toyota, flew halfway across the planet to apologize in Washington: "When the cars are damaged, it is as though I am as well." (See the top 10 apologies...
...still unclear how exactly Tehran caught wind of Rigi's presence in Dubai. News of the arrest has only been gleaned from accounts revealed by Iranian state-media sources and cannot be independently confirmed. On Feb. 25, Iranian state television broadcast footage of a supposed confession made by Rigi, saying he was flying to Central Asia to meet with American handlers at the U.S.-run Manas air base in Kyrgyzstan. Intelligence Minister Moslehi had already pointed his finger at Washington and the hand of the CIA, claiming to have evidence that Rigi was earlier housed at a U.S. base...