Word: espn
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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During June, Malin has shuttled back and forth between covering games in New York for NBC, Toronto for ESPN, and his daughter's graduation at Harvard. He also spent a few days in Mexico City in the middle of the tournament...
...addition to doing seven games for NBC, Malin has served as color commentator for the Entertainment and Sports Programming Network (ESPN) during their 15-game coverage. Malin acted in a similar capacity with ESPN during the 1982 World...
...Then the players were thrown in the penalty box and the camera showed them spitting up blood and looking like Hello-I-Eat-Reinforced-Steel-Bolts-For-Breakfast. It was actually a pretty entertaining fight and the players seemed to enjoy raising a ruckus so I tuned out the ESPN announcer who was pontificating about sportsmanslike conduct. A few minutes in the penalty box, I thought. A couple teeth. A little blood. The crowd likes it. The players like it. I like it...Everybody's happy...
...Cinemax (both owned by Time Inc.) became the first two cable services to scramble their signals, thus preventing dish owners from watching them without paying a monthly subscription fee. Showtime and the Movie Channel will begin similar scrambling on May 27, and most other satellite-beamed cable channels, including ESPN, MTV, the Disney Channel, Cable News Network and Superstation WTBS, will follow suit before the end of the year. Their actions have set off a heated battle over just who has the right to TV signals bouncing through the skies...
...ESPN--Enterntainment and Sports...