Word: cnbc
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...CNBC DAYTIME Like CNN and the Gulf War or Court TV and O.J., the financial-news net defined the boom era with its sharp, zesty, sports-jock-style coverage. In 1999, the business of America was business news, and cnbc's ticker--seen in bars, gyms, airports--was the frantic eeg of a stock-crazed, mercantile society...
...pushing the going rate up to about $3 million for a precious 30 sec. This week the portal AltaVista, which until six months ago didn't even have a marketing department, will kick off a $120 million advertising blitz. You can't turn on business-news channel CNBC without seeing a barrage of online-broker ads, and broadcasts of the World Series and pro football are packed with obscure Web pitches, from VitaminShoppe.com to Youbet.com an online horse-racing site...
Ventura's comments to the Current echo what he told an informal gathering of students when he visited Harvard two weeks ago to appear on CNBC's "Hardball with Chris Matthews...
...Jesse Ventura came to campus this week. According to most major newspapers and the cable channel CNBC, this was a very big deal. Ventura has been the target of much criticism lately for comments he made in an interview with Playboy. I picked up a copy of the magazine in order to judge his remarks for myself. It turns out that a female boxer is photographed naked in the same issue. I didn't even know there were female boxers...
...Ventura was at Soldiers' Field, CNBC's crew was busy turning the ARCO Forum into a television soundstage, complete with klieg lights and cameras on cranes...