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...late in the football game and you're falling behind, the best strategy is often to go deep and hope something good happens. And that's exactly what three television networks did last week, reaching deep into their pockets to pay $17.6 billion for the right to broadcast National Football League games until 2005. Says Robert Iger, president of ABC Inc., the Walt Disney Co.-owned media firm, which spent $9.2 billion on both network and cable-television rights: "Losing would have been devastating...
Also in 1940, the Crimson Network, a whollyowned subsidiary which broadcast Crimson newsthrough the College, was founded by severaleditors with $400 of the paper's money. Thepredecessor of WHRB soon separated from itsparent, for lack of common interests...
...Friday night, 8:00 EST. Business channel CNBC -- home of the streaming ticker, during-the-break Dow updates, and Maria "The Money Honey" Bartiromo -- wades into movie waters with the excellent HBO-produced Barbarians at the Gate (1993). With recent revelations about the birth of Joe Camel, the broadcast of this savvy comedy of business manners, about the takeover of RJR Nabisco, is fortuitously timed. You get Jim Garner and Jonathan Pryce (not to mention Fred Thompson). You laugh. You learn a little something. Sure, you can rent it, but CP says be on hand at eight for this dream...
...effort to prove Seinfeld still had creative life in it, Wright and Welch gave Seinfeld a formal presentation titled "Seinfeld: A Broadcast Phenomenon," full of neat and colorful charts--SEINFELD MORE DOMINANT THAN EVER--demonstrating that, unlike most shows that reach a ninth season, Seinfeld's audience was still growing, at least in the only demographic category that matters, adults ages 18 to 49. In a particularly sneaky appeal to Seinfeld's ego, the presentation included a graph showing his show's gains over the past five seasons, in contrast to the losses for fellow stand-up Tim Allen...
...reelection, the president is accused of making advances on a Girl Scout in the Oval Office. The media, of course, has no qualms and does not hesitate for a second in pouncing on the story. The president's opponent, in fact, takes it upon himself to broadcast a new commercial urging the masses not to vote for a "man who's lost his integrity"--the message is hilariously set against the background of the song, "Thank Heaven for Little Girls." Amidst all the frenzy, mysterious political consultant Conrad Brean (Robert De Niro) is called to resolve the catastrophe. Perfectly calm...