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When Ken Jobe, the news director at WLWT-TV in Cincinnati, Ohio, interviews prospective newscasters, the first thing he hears is, "I promise not to run for mayor." Anywhere else, that would be a lame joke; at Channel 5, it's a necessary disclaimer. Talk-show host Jerry Springer was an anchor at the station after serving as mayor from 1977 to 1978; current officeholder Charlie Luken quit his job as a WLWT anchor to run for the post. And one day last June, anchor Courtis Fuller read the news at noon, handed Jobe his resignation and jumped into...
...This was largely thanks to Wai, a pinwheel of compelling, eccentric movie ideas. In the '80s they had worked together at tvb, Hong Kong's highest-rated channel. (That's also where To meet his wife Paulina; they have been married for 23 years.) Wai made his directorial debut in 1995 with Peace Hotel, a Chow Yun-fat Eastern Western whose bold, dusky style seemed indebted equally to Woo, Sergio Leone and Wong...
Temporarily entering the world of insomniacs one night, I picked up the TV remote to see what those restless souls watched while most of us are off in dreamland. Between reruns of comedies on Nick at Nite and endless forecasts on the Weather Channel, I was captivated by a commercial hawking supplements to "boost your metabolism and burn away the fat." Astonished by the claims, I logged on to the Internet and began investigating...
Meanwhile, Peterman can't help being an entrepreneur--he's been dreaming up future licensing ventures that include "a company that supplies safaris and other adventure travel in the Peterman style" and a TV shopping show. "Not a shopping channel," he says, "but a show done in a Peterman way, like 'shopping the world with J. Peterman.'" The key to such plans, he adds, "is that I remain in control and focused on the Peterman brand...
...kicked a ball in Parma's blue-and-yellow colors, made a good start for the club. On the day he signed up, Parma inked a contract to sell 10,000 Nakata jerseys in Japan. Every Parma match will be broadcast live in Japan on the Sky PerfecTV cable channel, netting more revenues for the Italian club. The lure of the yen is irresistible for English clubs under financial pressure from rising player salaries and keen to take their brands and their merchandise outside their saturated home market. The Premier League estimates that of the 440 million people globally...