Word: loss
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...keep the AFC rights, the weakest in the package, or more than $500 million a year to obtain Monday Night, considered the strongest. "There was no chance of making money in this deal," said Dick Ebersol, president of NBC Sports, after the announcements. "I'll guess [it's] a loss of $150 million to $175 million a year. We simply don't believe in being associated with that kind of loss." The Peacock will have to console itself with other sports, such as the Olympic Games. Not to be outdone in the spending department, the company renewed its top-rated...
Companies generally don't risk $4 billion to break even. But CBS, now No. 2 in the ratings, is in serious need of programming events, young viewers and more male viewers. Even if CBS takes a loss, football becomes part of an overall strategy to regain the top spot on the network heap. "This is a building block," says Neal Pilson, a sports-television consultant and former president of CBS Sports. "An expensive building block." If football can increase prime-time ratings by 1 point, "That could throw $50 million to the bottom line for a full season," says Pilson...
...many attitude-adjustment schools is closer to prison than prep school. Facilities are spartan, discipline strict. At Tranquility Bay, students are supervised from wake-up at 6:30 a.m. to lights-out at 9:30 p.m. Punishment for violations of the 54-page student rule book range from loss of merit points to "observation placement"--meaning a student must lie on the tile floor of his room all day, not sitting up except for meals and bathroom breaks. And parents sign a contract allowing the school to use handcuffs, mace and stun guns on their children. "Restraints are rare," says...
...direct outcomes were the founding of the Harvard Independent, the expansion of the Harvard Gazette to its present form from a simple notice sheet, the loss of The Crimson's right to publish the University's official notice column and a succession of lean financial years for The Crimson," he wrote...
Harvard administrators are mourning the loss of Mary I. Bunting-Smith, who used the University as a platform to revolutionize the role of women in society...