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...speech met with cheers from a crowd of about 300 who watched the telecast on a large screen at the Institute of Politics last night...
Sixteen years have passed since ABC's landmark telecast of Roots. In TV time, that is nearly a millennium. Back in 1977, the mini-series was a fresh and vital form. The Big Three networks still had a virtual monopoly on the TV audience. And an old-fashioned, multigenerational family saga disguised as a history lesson about slavery could seem like a major contribution to racial understanding...
...goal is to repay all the loans if enough money is raised from ticket sales for the 11 Inaugural balls, sales of Inaugural trinkets (least expensive item of Clintonalia: a $2 temporary tattoo; most expensive: a $925 cherrywood box of Inaugural medallions), and the ad revenue from the CBS telecast of Tuesday's Presidential Gala Concert. This year nearly $18 million in loans has come from 192 corporations, individuals and labor unions. But some of the same companies have also chipped in $2.4 million to the Presidential Inaugural Foundation Committee, which pays for the public and free events of Inauguration...
...waiting to happen. Someone reports that 34% of this year's Grammy nominees will be performing (gratis, of course, as is everyone) and that Michael Jackson needs a call. Thomason is still twisting the arms of CBS, Time Warner and Disney to find out what they will pay to telecast the events, including gala performances by Barbra Streisand, Aretha Franklin, Bill Cosby, a reunited Fleetwood Mac, a vast parade with two Elvis impersonators and a lawn-chair precision drill team. How did Thomason end up here? "Obviously, I was out of the room when Bill decided," he jokes wearily, pressing...
...past 21 years, the energetic Aramony was widely credited with boosting annual receipts from $787 million in 1970 to more than $3 billion in 1990. He had sought and nurtured a lucrative agreement from the National Football League to donate valuable advertising airtime, featuring pro celebrities, during nationally telecast N.F.L. games. But last week, facing embarrassing criticism of his life-style, Aramony abruptly resigned...