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...known for his hugely successful mini-series The Civil War. But this season viewers are getting a chance to see the full breadth of his talent. His first new work since The Civil War debuted in September 1990, Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio, will be telecast on PBS this Wednesday. On the same night the public network will rerun his Oscar-nominated 1981 film, Brooklyn Bridge. Two more of Burns' films will be shown in July, and his entire oeuvre has been released on videocassette by Direct Cinema...
...watched television over vaction, you couldn't miss the commercials for the Olympic telecast package. The 800 number (1-800-OLYMPIC) was flashed across the screen in an all-out media blitz to sell this cable package before the end of February...
When U.S. troops invaded Panama in December 1989, the Soviet Foreign Ministry read its condemnation to a CNN crew before passing it through diplomatic channels. During the buildup to the gulf war, Turkish President Turgut Ozal was watching a CNN telecast of a press conference and heard a reporter ask Bush if Ozal would cut off an oil pipeline into Iraq. Bush said he was about to ask Ozal that very question. Moments later, when the telephone rang, Ozal was able to tell Bush that he was expecting the call...
That emotion is what makes Play by Play: A History of Sports Television, a two-part HBO special, the most exhilarating documentary of the year. The old clips are irresistible and surprisingly fresh. In the very first sports telecast, a 1939 college baseball game between Columbia and Princeton, viewers couldn't even see the ball. Later came technical advances like the portable camera and the instant replay, and visionaries like ABC's Roone Arledge, who discovered that the thrill of victory could be the stuff of great drama. The program is packed with memorable highlights (Hank Aaron's 715th homer...
...upon the mound and tell sad stories of the death of NETWORK BASEBALL. CBS, the tale begins, spent a whopping $1 billion for the right to telecast major league games for four years. Now, after sustaining huge losses from last year's abbreviated postseason, the network seems to wish the sport would just go away. Regular-season telecasts have been reduced to a meager handful. Pregame shows during the league championship series were entirely eliminated, to minimize the ratings damage. The games themselves have featured such distractions as Andrea Joyce and Lesley Visser roaming the stands for human-interest angles...