Word: sportscast
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Network for broadcast's era of decline. Action and Beggars compare show business, unfavorably, with prostitution and the Mob. Meanwhile, the clever but self-important Sports Night treats its topic with the laugh track-eschewing gravity of M*A*S*H--though one rarely bleeds to death on a sportscast. The one exception to this self-flagellating trend is the tepid family sitcom Movie Stars. It's Growing Pains with agents...
...Without radio, there would have been no TV. Radio first brought to prominence Jack Benny, Amos and Andy, Ozzie and Harriet, Bing Crosby, Benny Goodman, Lucille Ball and Edward R. Murrow--not to mention the creation of the soap opera, newscast, quiz show, talk show, domestic comedy and live sportscast. Not bad for one little medium. GERALD NACHMAN San Francisco...
...colorful owner of the Washington Redskins football team; in Washington. A high school dropout who began as an encyclopedia salesman, Cooke built what may be a billion-dollar fortune, freewheeling his way through media properties, sports franchises and real estate. In 1971 he pioneered the closed-circuit mega-sportscast by financing the first Muhammad Ali-Joe Frazier match. Fans and foes relished reading about his four tabloid-tale marriages. Approached for a book on the world's five greatest salesmen, Cooke replied, "I am not one of five anything...