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...prosecutor's entire case into jeopardy. Like sportscasters, the commentators keep score, but points are awarded evenly to each side, because no one wants a runaway game where the fans leave the stands before half time. About the time a viewer might be tempted to switch to a shopping channel, the anchors would go to a replay of the ceremonious delivery of the mysterious brown envelope, which contains either a knife or a red herring. It's as riveting as the MacGuffin in a Hitchcock thriller...
...been watching avidly for the return of Cameroonian star Roger Milla, who at 42 was placed on the team by government orders because of his immense popularity. We started kicking a ball around at the Business School with graduate students on weekends. And, yes, we watch Univision, the Spanish channel. They show all of the games and all of the injury time. Sure, the play-by-play is completely incomprehensible, but we just know that it's better than Roger Twibell's nonsense. On what other station can you scream, "GOOOOL!" for a full minute along with the announcer...
Increasingly, the theme is homegrown, back-to-basics TV. Spurred by the need to look different and to do it cheaply, new channels proudly let the seams show -- a throwback to the earliest days of TV -- and stress spontaneity and viewer participation -- an attempt to achieve the intimacy of talk radio. Anne Sweeney, chairman of fX, says her channel's goal is to create "a national network based on a local feel." America's Talking will use interactive | technology to get viewers involved. "This is a place where Americans can come, pull up a chair, pour a cup of coffee...
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...Cable Television Consumer Protection and Competition Act, but the remainder decided to ship the case back to federal appeals court in the District of Columbia. The decision has only a short-term effect, though: there'll be plenty of room for the local stations in cable's 500-channel future...