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...season. That will probably push the Super Bowl into February, which just happens to be a ratings "sweeps" period. And for fans who had too much Bud Bowl and not enough Super Bowl last January, relief is nowhere in sight. To help defray the immense cost of football's telecast rights, the networks will add three more 30-second commercial spots to each game next season, and another two in the fall...
...countermove by Atlanta cable kingpin Ted Turner. Starting last September, Turner's Cable News Network began offering a classroom newscast of its own, without commercials. (Time Warner Inc. owns 18% of CNN's parent, Turner Broadcasting Co., and 50% of Whittle Communications.) The 15-minute show, CNN Newsroom, is telecast each morning at 3:45; schools with cable can tape it and play it back later in the day. Turner's nonprofit venture does not offer free equipment, but many cable operators have agreed to connect noncable schools gratis if they sign up for CNN's program. More than...
...employment problems began on the night in 1978 when she accepted an Academy Award as Best Supporting Actress for Julia. As militant Jewish groups picketed outside to denounce a pro-Palestinian documentary film she had financed by selling her house in Britain, Redgrave injudiciously responded in a speech telecast worldwide. In words aimed at the protesters, she told Academy voters, "You have stood firm and refused to be intimidated by a small band of Zionist hoodlums who have insulted Jews all over the world in their struggle against fascism and Nazism." Heard out of context, the phrase gave birth...
After a comment he made a two weeks ago during a Cubs telecast on cable superstation WGN, Caray could announce naked and still get away with...
...Olympic, Wash. More recently, Dennis Weaver, Michael Landon and Robert Downey Jr. voiced their protest against offshore oil drilling at a rally in downtown L.A. And last weekend a gross of glitterati -- Diana Ross, Elton John, Sigourney Weaver -- joined world leaders in Our Common Future, a five-hour global telecast...