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Legendary broadcast journalist Dan Rather told a packed John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum last night that Comedy Central host Jon Stewart offers “another dimension to the American experience.” “I like him. I like the program,” Rather told a smiling Alex S. Jones, his interlocutor for the evening. After this cheerful beginning, Rather went on to address some of the tougher problems facing the media today, focusing on the market pressures which affect the quality of broadcast news. “Ratings no longer are king. Demographics...
...cricket's growth on the subcontinent. Nimbus was one of 15 rival bidders, according to Sharad Pawar, president of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (bcci). Having won the deal, Nimbus, which has no TV channel of its own, is now in talks to resell rights to broadcast India's matches in individual countries. Interested media giants and cable-TV companies include ESPN, Sony Entertainment and the BBC. Money isn't flowing into the sport through broadcasting rights alone. In the last two months, the BCCI signed sponsorship agreements and other deals that raised the organization's revenue...
...last film, The Passion of the Christ, was spoken entirely in the dead languages of Latin and Aramaic.? Now Mel Gibson will appear in a brief spot on this Sunday?s Oscar broadcast speaking another exotic tongue:? Maya.? That's the sole language of Apocalypto, the adventure epic set in Pre-Columbian Mexico that Gibson is currently shooting on the edge of southern Mexico's rainforests, in the state of Veracruz. ""I wanted to shake up the stale action-adventure genre," Gibson told TIME, which was given an exclusive peek at the filming for a story to appear...
...action:PENN (18-7, 10-1 IVY) AT YALE (15-12, 7-5)It’s hard to believe that this contest won’t be televised, noting its implications for the Ivy title race, but since the YES Network and CN8 have combined to broadcast both of Saturday night’s key matchups, I won’t complain about this omission too much.Though the final score might not reflect it, Yale jumped out to a 16-1 lead over Penn in the two teams’ first matchup. Had the Quakers not been playing...
...recent years, the Academy Awards broadcast has come under fire for being overlong and dull. Last year, the show’s producers trimmed its runtime by a half hour and tapped outspoken comedian Chris Rock to give the program some much needed “edge.” To the delight of viewers—and the horror of many stars—Rock used the hosting gig to skewer Hollywood egos and lampoon the self-importance of the entertainment industry. But his barbs may have been a little too incisive—he was not invited back...