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...song One Hundred Bottles of Beer on the Wall almost all the way through. He seemed to relish putting audiences on, and off balance, making them wonder if he was joking at all, as in his shoving match with a TV producer and actors on a live broadcast of ABC's Friday's in 1981. "I just want real reactions," said Kaufman in explaining his comedy. "I want people to laugh from the gut, be sad from the gut-or get angry from...
...ABC officials quickly pointed out that they had taken steps to protect themselves against boycotts and other potential misfortunes. For one thing, the network's contract with the L.A.O.O.C. calls for reduced payments if any of ten teams, including those of the Soviet Union and East Germany, fails to take part in competition. According to the L.A.O.O.C.'s Usher, the rebate will be something less than the $60 million to $70 million that he said ABC still owes the L.A.O.O.C...
...addition, ABC had a reported $8 million insurance policy with San Francisco's Fireman's Fund against a whole list of eventualities, including cancellation of the Games because of an earthquake and their interruption by an emergency presidential speech. The network even insured itself against low ratings, though neither ABC nor Fireman's Fund will disclose how much the audience has to dip before the policy starts paying...
...attendance, viewership and product sales at this summer's Olympics, the jolt of two major-power boycotts in a row is bound to influence profoundly the Summer Games scheduled for Seoul in 1988. After the television rights to the 1988 Whiter Games in Calgary were sold to ABC for $309 million ($218 million more than its winning bid for the Sarajevo competition), some broadcast analysts speculated that the rights to the Seoul Games would take a dizzying leap toward the billion-dollar mark. Now, with only a month to go before the rights are awarded, that estimate has been...
...beginning to make some sense I know that when I watched the 1984 Winter Olympics I found it striking to witness ABC television cameras surveying the culture of a communist country and interviewing its people. Perhaps we have underestimated the significance of such an occurrence which only the Olympics can provide. It, indeed, is admirable that all countries could come together, despite the fact that the Games took place in a country which can ambiguously be described as a Soviet satellite...