Word: channell
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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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...
...just around. And he is always onto something -- usually on top. In the '70s he successfully ran Paramount's empire of movies. In the '80s, at Fox, he achieved the impossible: launching a fourth network and making it flower. In 1992 he became a partner in the home-shopping channel QVC, a roadside fruit stand on the new information superhighway. Instead of instantly upgrading the network's programming, Diller used QVC as a piggy bank for the hostile raid on Paramount. For once, he was vanquished, by Viacom Inc., and when the battle was over Diller issued this statement...
...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...
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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...