Word: spun
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...while the fast-growing Game Show Network revives the leisure-suited splendor of Match Game and Tattle Tales. Thanks to cable's ravenous maw for content, more diverse and complex shows are entering the rerun canon. Cartoon Network (which, like TIME, is owned by AOL Time Warner) not only spun off the Boomerang channel of old cartoons for nostalgic adults (Get it? Boomerang?) but also inspired a heated was-Bugs-Bunny-racist debate last month when it excised anti-Japanese World War II-era shorts from a Bugs marathon. One-season wonders like My So-Called Life and Action have...
...says he was intrigued by "a period that had a lot of innocence and a lot of brutality at the same time." The concept now seems like a no-brainer; Steven Spielberg (with Saving Private Ryan) and NBC news anchor Tom Brokaw (in his Greatest Generation books) have spun America's World War II nostalgia into gold, but market research for Pearl Harbor showed that the desirable high-moviegoing audience of ages 19 to 24 generally had no idea what Pearl Harbor...
...then the station had both congealed and softened; the format was strangling the jock's freedom to go nuts. As Wibbage turned to cabbage, other DJs at smaller stations caught kids' attentive ears. At WCAM in Camden, across the Delaware River from Philly, Kal Rudman spun the widest playlist in the tri-state area and gave records away. (I still have a 45 that came in the mail from Kal: "Guybo" by Eddie Cochran's band, the Kelly Four...
...inevitable, AT&T CEO Michael Armstrong said Wednesday that he would indeed be getting back to the table with Comcast to discuss the father-son Philadelphia cable empire's $58 billion ($44 billion plus $14 billion in debt assumption) bid to merge with AT&T's soon-to-be-spun-off cable division, ATT&T Broadband...
...also spun off Soul Buddyz, a show for younger viewers, which began a 26-episode run on SABC-TV last year. Much as 'Soul City' does for adults, Soul Buddyz looks at AIDS and other problems as they affect the young. The show is already being sought by countries outside South Africa...