Word: hosting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...senior, has seen the Crimson program improve immensely. This weekend at the 1989 Eastern Championships in Annapolis, Md., Harvard finished in fourth place--the best finish by any Crimson squad. And yesterday in the game for third-place, Harvard dropped a tough 11-9 decision to the host Midshipmen...
...seeing the future of the TV talk show, and it is, well, funky. The Arsenio Hall Show, a weeknightly joyride on 167 stations nationwide, is less a talk show than a televised party: hip, hyperkinetic and hot. The host can't sit still, and the crowd can't get enough of him. At any moment, Hall might race into the studio audience in response to a shouting fan, or sidle over to his five-piece house band ("my posse") for some impromptu jamming. Meanwhile, as late-night's first successful black talk host, he has turned his guest couch into...
...Sajak and David Letterman in the ratings, to take the No. 2 slot behind Carson's venerable Tonight show. Hall's show ranks No. 1 among the important under-35 audience. "I take the view that the public has elected me as a new late-night talk-show host," he says enthusiastically. "I've worked all my life preparing for it, putting together a platform -- my kind of guests, my kind of music, what I think is funny. I've been warming up in the '80s, but I'm really for the '90s. I'm the talk-show host...
...show has attracted new viewers. Some urban contemporary radio stations have noticed a drop in their listenership when Hall is on the air. The inevitable TV imitators are starting to appear, notably The Byron Allen Show on CBS, a Saturday-night talk show with another black comic as host. Even fuddy-duddies like Carson and Sajak seem to be feeling the heat. Would rock acts like Simply Red and Stevie B. have been booked in the days before Hall...
...next day, when the NCAA tournamentselections are announced, Harvard receives betternews: the Crimson receives a bye and will host aWestern club at Bright in two weeks...