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Mayweather (40-0, 25 KOs) also has a tough opponent. Mosley is a wily 38-year-old who twice defeated Oscar De La Hoya. (Both Mayweather and Mosley have agreed to random blood testing.) Richard Schaefer, CEO of Golden Boy, which is promoting the fight, predicts that HBO will sell 3 million pay-per-view buys to make it the biggest fight in boxing history. It will also be shown in theaters nationwide. (Watch TIME's video "A Free Boxing Lesson with Oscar De La Hoya...
Sunday night's Oscar program almost didn't happen for millions of TV viewers in the New York City area, in the latest high-stakes battle between media giants over the cost of TV programming. Why are these battles happening now, and who will ultimately...
...happened to be one of Cablevision's 3.1 million subscribers in New York, New Jersey or Connecticut on Sunday, you missed some classic TV: a closeup of Academy Award winner Mo'Nique's hairy legs on Barbara Walters' Oscar special, Kathy Ireland's freaky posture on the red carpet and Neil Patrick Harris singing about why inmates drop soap. That's because ABC cut off the signal of its New York City station to Cablevision subscribers just after midnight on Sunday morning, in a dispute over "retransmission fees," the money the cable company pays for carrying local broadcast stations...
...million for networks this year, not insignificant, but a fraction of the $28 billion expected to be brought in by cable networks. Nevertheless, providers like Cablevision, which are being asked to pay for something that used to be free, will vigorously oppose these moves. (See the top 10 Oscar-nomination snubs...
Freshman Zeke Scherl, the overall No. 4 seed in the Molloy division, earned a first-round bye and cruised through his first match against George Washington’s Omar Sobhy before succumbing to Oscar Lopez in the round of 16, 3-2. The freshman then moved straight into the consolation quarterfinals, where he beat Rochester’s Matt Domenick 3-2, before falling to Ethan Buchsbaum of Williams in the semifinals...