Network predicts profit from its $456 million purchase of '96 summer Olympics, but there are a lot of unknowns, including affiliate and cable deals Network predicts profit from its $456 million purchase of '96 summer Olympics, but there are a lot of...
The famed Sydney Opera House is transformed into a sports arena -- made of what appear to be wedges of basketballs -- in a print ad and poster campaign for NBC Sports' broadcast of the Summer Olympics. Basketball will be a key area of the ... ...
NBC and affiliate executives met last week to discuss the inventory contribution affiliates will make for coverage of the 1996 summer Olympics in Atlanta. Affiliates kicked in approximately $30 million in daytime and late-night inventory for the B NBC and affiliate executives met...
Thousands of spectators cheered Olympic medalists Michael Phelps, Dara Torres and Kobe Bryant on Wednesday as the city of Chicago got a high-profile boost to its bid to host the 2016 Summer Olympics. Oprah Winfrey was taping the season premiere for "The Oprah Winfrey Show" at a...
Young Beverly Hills Soccer Players Continue Winning Streak in Olympic-style Competition BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. -- Beverly Hills residents and soccer players Ally Maize and teammate, Alexa Block, were selected for the girls soccer teams to represent the city of Los Angeles in the 2008 Maccabi Games([R]), part of...
-- Elite Gymnast and Role Model Makes Tween Friends on BSG's New Website -- LEXINGTON, Mass. -- Today B*tween Productions, home of the Beacon Street Girls, and Nastia Liukin, Olympic gold medal gymnast, jointly announced that Liukin will serve as a role model on the company's new safe...
Q: Where are the Corona Beer ads filmed? --Allyson Hogan, Park City, Utah A: True to its Mexican heritage, the Grupo Modelo brand and its longtime agency, Cramer-Krasselt, film on the beaches of the Riviera Maya, between Cancun and Tulum. The team has returned there for...
SANTA YNEZ VALLEY, Calif., Sept. 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Platinum Performance client McLain Ward proclaimed the Unites States Show Jumping victory at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China, on August 19, as "probably the greatest day for North America in the history of the sport." Winning the...
*TENNIS When Rafael Nadal laboured to a first-round victory over the German qualifier Bjorn Phau here last week the common consensus was that the US Open was a tournament too far for the world No 1. Surely not even Mr Muscles from Majorca could continue at...
With the 2008 Summer Olympics now in full swing, who isn't on the lookout for future talent and potential Olympians? Turns out, we didn't have to look far--two were right under our noses in the bodybuilding community. But we can't take all the credit for finding them--that goes to the...
Over the course of two compelling weeks the world watched and we celebrated an international cast of amazing athletes as they competed in Beijing. This year's Summer Games also served as an extraordinary showcase for current and former student-athletes who hailed from California's intercollegiate athletics programs, especially from the Bay...
TANNI Grey-Thompson believes Britain's Paralympians can follow the glorious lead of the Olympic team. Britain enjoyed its best Olympics for 100 years when the team won 47 medals at the Games including 19 golds. The Paralympics open in Beijing on Saturday and...
If any of you watched the Summer Olympics as I did, then you saw a bunch of bodies that had all muscle and almost zero fat. You also noticed that many of the athletes were in their 30s, 40s and some even older than that. One of the riders on...
Six months ago Anne Keothavong could hardly have imagined being on the same court as Elena Dementieva. In the US Open here last night, however, the British No 1 gave the Olympic champion the sort of stringent examination she could barely have expected from a 24- year-old who broke into...
What rain! And what gales! No wonder sales of thermal underwear have shot up by 50 per cent already this year. I live a stone's throw from the beach and I haven't had a dip in the sea once yet, let alone done a stint relaxing on the beach with...
Here are the top prime-time shows for Aug. 18-24. Listings include the week's ranking, with season-to-date rankings in parentheses. An "X" in parentheses denotes a one-time-only presentation. 1. X "Summer Olympics Closing Ceremony," NBC, 27.8 million viewers. 2. X "Summer Olympics Tuesday,"...
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