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WESH, bolstered by Olympics, gets ratings gold for August
The TV Guy - Orlando SentinelAugust has been the best of times for WESH-Channel 2. The Orlando NBC affiliate, which enjoyed a tremendous lift from the Summer Olympics, posted big victories in early and late news. Local stations strive to win the 25-to-54 age group, which is most... -
Olympics give NBC a high, which network quickly loses
The TV Guy - Orlando SentinelIt's the best of times and the worst of times at NBC. The network got another phenomenal prime-time performance from the Summer Olympics. But the fun was over Monday as the network's ratings crashed back to Earth. “Stars Earn Stripes” and &#... -
‘Good Morning America’ beats ‘Today’ again
The TV Guy - Orlando SentinelWithout the Olympics, “Today” is running second to “Good Morning America.” ABC's “GMA” won last week in total viewers, as it has done seven of the past nine weeks. The break in that winning streak came the weeks of July... -
Local Q&A: Volcano!
Volcano! albums arrive about as frequently as the Summer Olympics, so it's fitting the art-pop trio took its name from a geological feature known for long periods of dormancy. The band will celebrate the release of its long-in-the-works new album,...
Tags: Entertainment, Billy Joel, Aerosmith (music group), Arts and Culture, Volcanoes
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Milt Campbell dies at 78; Olympic gold medalist in the decathlon
Milt Campbell, a versatile athlete who became the first African American to win a gold medal in the Olympic decathlon, besting then-world record holder Rafer Johnson at the 1956 Melbourne Summer Games, has died. He was 78. Campbell, who went on to...
Tags: Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum, Sports, Jim Thorpe, Football, Canadian Football
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Track & Field: Olympian Kevin Young looks back on 400-meter hurdles record that still stands after 20 years
larry@amnews.comNo one could have imagined 20 years ago when Kevin Young won the 400-meter hurdles at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona that his winning time of 46.78 seconds would remain the world record 20 years later, but that’s exactly what has happened....Tags: Olympic Games, UCLA Bruins, Kevin Young, Track and Field, ABC (tv network)
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Double dip: Eurozone falls back into recession
The Eurozone is back in a recession, its first in three years, as gross domestic product for the debt-plagued 17-nation bloc contracted 0.1% in the third quarter from the earlier quarter. In the second quarter, the currency collective tightened 0.2%,...
Tags: Europe, European Central Bank, Gross Domestic Product, Germany, European Union
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London Symphony to pretend to play for Olympics ceremony
Musicians with the London Symphony Orchestra are reportedly going to have to pull a Milli Vanilli when they appear at the opening ceremony of the Summer Olympic Games in London. Reports from Britain state that the orchestra will mimic playing to...Tags: Entertainment, Culture, Itzhak Perlman, Yo-Yo Ma, Arts and Culture
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Video game world built for 'Wreck-It Ralph'
Tribune NewspapersBURBANK, Calif. — It was when he cast Bowser, the fire-breathing turtle from Nintendo's Super Mario Bros. games, that Rich Moore first grasped the magnitude of the job he was undertaking. “That was the huge one,” he said at Walt...Tags: Entertainment, Services and Shopping, Pixar Animation, Video Games, John C. Reilly
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A kinder, gentler Romney
It's a safe bet that President Barack Obama misses the old Mitt Romney — the one who described himself as "severely conservative." In their first debate in Denver, Mr. Romney outflanked the president by assuming the role of Moderate Mitt, a sweet-...
Tags: Republican Party, Iran, Iraq, Elections, Pakistan
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Jeff Blatnick dies at 55; won gold in Olympic wrestling in 1984
Jeff Blatnick, who overcame cancer to win a gold medal in Greco-Roman wrestling at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, died Wednesday. He was 55. Blatnick died of complications from heart surgery, USA Wrestling said on its website, citing a report...
Tags: Wrestling, Greco Roman, Television Stations, Heart Surgery, Television Industry
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