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Bull riding has always been about macho cowboy culture. Now it has something else going for it: a burgeoning TV audience. On cable channel oln, bull riding is among the highest-rated shows, handily beating broadcasts of NHL hockey games. An nbc broadcast of the PBR finals last year drew more viewers than the average audience for the Stanley Cup finals. And now Fox is on board. After Sunday football games this fall, the network plans to show two PBR events, including a broadcast from the finals in Las Vegas on Oct. 29. "This is a pivotal moment...
...does not look at Arianna Huffington and think, "shrinking violet." She ran an all-but-lost-cause campaign for governor in California, she's done a television
When President Bush spoke on the fifth anniversary of 9/11, he warned Americans to take very seriously the extravagant threats conveyed in al-Qaeda's steady output of infomercials. Over in France, which was singled out for some pretty threatening trashtalking in al-Qaeda's own 9/11 anniversary broadcast, counterterrorism officials see the movement's stepped up video campaign as a sign that Osama bin Laden and Ayman Zawahiri fear they may be becoming irrelevant...
Ruver Fuentes tearfully remembered where she was the morning of Sept. 11, 2001 - at the Bronx, N.Y., elementary school where she works as a teacher. Watching television on a break between classes, she did not realize she was looking at a live television broadcast of terrorists attacking the U.S. "I thought I had seen a movie. I asked 'Why are they showing such a violent film on television,' but they told me it was real," said Fuentes, 61. ?Later on I found out many of my students? parents were killed in the World Trade Center.? Fuentes was one of thousands...
Iranians seem resigned to the likelihood that with tensions rising, the situation at home is likely to get worse. Earlier last month, police confiscated all the illegal satellite dishes in my neighborhood under the guise of preventing the broadcast of impure content. The "real" story circulating among residents went like this: a regime official had recently begun importing small, laptop-size satellite dishes that work indoors. If the government rounded up the rooftop dishes, everyone would be forced to buy the official's dishes. For a while, people on my block stood outside debating what to do. The elders finally...