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...football should return. The tiny audience the games attracted doesn't exactly suggest that America has been waiting all these years to get a glimpse of Big Green football. Public television, however, doesn't exist solefy for big ratings--that's the job of ABC, CBS, and NBC, if PBS can serve a public need defined other than by the number of people who want to watch a given program, then by all means it should do so. That's how we end up with driver education programs, and documentaries on harp seals, and even "Monty Python's Flying Circus...
...resign as Defense Minister after the official Israeli report on the massacre, the trial provided a forum to refurbish his reputation at home and abroad. Sharon has never made any secret of his desire to become Israel's Prime Minister; the morning after the trial ended, he said on NBC-TV's Today Show that "I believe that one day I'll try to do that." By persuading the jury that the paragraph was false, Sharon has helped his cause, even though he lost the case...
...addition, the former Government concentrator will begin the shoot of a NBC sports commercial which will appear across New England Anderson said he is not yet sure what the commercial will entail "Usually, you don't really know about the stuff you do beforehand you just show...
...widely recognized as one of America's foremost comedians, has moved rapidly into the limelight in recent years. After spending his salad days with the Second City comedy troupe and "National Lampoon" magazine, Murray achieved his early popularity in 1975 as a Not Ready For Prime Time Player on NBC TV's "Saturday Night Live...
Increasingly, these issue dramas are being accompanied by elaborate public education campaigns, featuring such devices as study guides and toll-free "hot lines." A groundbreaking film on this front was Adam, a 1983 NBC movie about a family's search for its kidnaped child. Following each of the movie's two airings, the network broadcast a series of photos of missing children. Some 30 were found as a result, and the increased public awareness helped spur the establishment of a permanent national center for locating missing children. In conjunction with next month's telecast of Surviving, ABC * has produced...