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ESPN Looking For Another Uptick In Indy 500 Ratings, Hoping Key Storylines Emerge05 / 24 / 13The Indianapolis 500 this Sunday on ABC will have "no shortage of compelling story lines," leaving TV execs "feeling confident about another bump in viewership this year," according to Dave Skretta of the AP. Ratings for the race "dropped precipitously throughout the 1990s," and while there have "be... Tags: Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Media |
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MONTANA GETS NBC TO AGREE ON PART-TIME ANALYST GIG
Joe Montana''s deal to join NBC''s NFL team was made official yesterday. Montana will be paid $400,000 to be a studio analyst for six regular-season weekends and four in the post-season. Posed with th
TIME WARNER ANNOUNCES PLANS FOR CABLE-SPEED ONLINE SERVICE
Time Warner opens its annual shareholders meeting today with the dual announcements that the company will chip away at its debt by selling off 15 small cable systems for $260M and that they plan to la
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MOON-LIGHTING: VIKINGS' QB TO PLAY ON BOTH SIDES OF MIKE
Vikings QB Warren Moon will pull double-duty this coming NFL season, working both on the field and as a member of the media. Moon, who also has worked this season on several TNT and TBS NBA broadcasts
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WAS WRIGHT WRONGED? "HE SAID, SHE SAID" DEBATE CONTINUES
Commentary continues on the alleged comments of CBS golf analyst Ben Wright that lesbianism has hurt the image of the LPGA, with several female columnists entering the fray. In San Francisco, Joan Rya
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By the end of ''96, Bell Atlantic hopes to compete with local cable operators in the DC area by offering more than 100 channels of video via wireless cable. Bell Atlantic officials say the move to wir
MORE MULTIMEDIA MERGER-MAKING: MICROSOFT & NBC JOIN FORCES
"Playing hardball as it prepares to enter the on-line computer services business, Microsoft Corp. has wooed NBC away from rivals America Online and Prodigy with a lucrative deal under which the softwa
NETWORK NEWS: BROADCAST AD MARKET ALL TAPPED OUT?
"For the first time ever in an adult TV marketplace, broadcast network sales managers are talking about rationing, or ''capping,'' the amount of time any given advertiser can purchase," according to t
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Overnight ratings from Saturday show the NBC''s coverage of the Rockets-Suns getting a 6.1, up 20% from a corresponding date last year, and the Knicks-Pacers getting an 8.0, up 27%. Overnights for Sun
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MULTIMEDIA UPDATE: REACTION TO MURDOCH-MCI ALLIANCE
The announcement last week that MCI would invest $2B in Rupert Murdoch''s News Corp. "stunned the communications world," according to the current BUSINESS WEEK. The alliance with Murdoch "has the pote
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WAS WRIGHT WRONGED? MEDIA BACKLASH HEADS REPORTER'S WAY
In New York, Richard Sandomir writes that any assessment of CBS golf analyst Ben Wright''s alleged remarks concerning lesbianism and the LPGA "must begin with this starting point: only Wright and Vale
