Word: espn
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...their homes wired back in the 1970s were attracted mainly by the promise of better reception and pay- cable movies. Now they can sample a growing smorgasbord of fare, from news and sports to music videos. Flush with ad revenues, cable networks are competing aggressively for programming. ESPN, for example, has picked up a package of Sunday-night NFL games that are bringing record high ratings for the sports network. Cable may also bid for the rights to part of the 1992 Olympics. Canceled network shows like Alfred Hitchcock Presents and The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd have been...
Today in Hanover, N.H., at 12:30 p.m. (ESPN, WHRB, 95.3), Harvard plays Dartmouth in a traditional battle of Ivy League rivals. Harvard's quest for another Ivy title can begin or end today...
Football Tidbits: The Harvard-Dartmouth game Saturday will be televised nationally on ESPN with kickoff slated...
...night Jackson was to speak before the Democratic National Convention, I sat at my neighborhood pub pleading with the bartender to switch the channel from ESPN to the network convention coverage. A good tip won out over the rowdy clientele, and the semi-drunken crowd began to listen to the words of the man who had become the nation's latest political phenomenon...
Thus Today's Bryant Gumbel, instead of the redoubtable McKay, will be this year's Olympic superanchor. NBC Sportscaster Bob Costas will handle late-night coverage, and Newcomer Gayle Gardner, brought over from ESPN, will co-host much of the daytime broadcasts. Among the veteran NBC hands who will be working their first TV Olympics are Charlie Jones, covering track and field, Marv Albert on boxing and Dick ("Oh my!") Enberg for gymnastics. There will even be new theme music from the ubiquitous John Williams...