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No tears here as NBC finally puts 'Rock Center' out of its journalistic misery
The Baltimore SunYou will find no tears here for the cancellation of Brian Williams' "Rock Center," which was first reported Friday by the New York Times. It was one of the sorriest excuses for a newsmagazine that I have seen in 30 years of reporting on network...Tags: NBC (tv network), Sunday Night Football (tv program), Jerry Sandusky
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NBC Sports delivers another winning Preakness telecast
The Baltimore SunWhether it's a Sunday night football game or the third Saturday in May at Pimlico, when NBC Sports floods the zone with members of its A-Team, the telecast is almost always a winner. That was again the case for the 138th Preakness Stakes -- thanks to...Tags: George Clooney, NBC (tv network), Triple Crown, Under Armour Inc., Equestrian
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NBC superb in Sunday night telecast of Ravens, Steelers
The Baltimore Sun'NBC Sunday Night Football' isn't just in a league of its own when it comes to NFL telecasts. It lives on another planet so far away from the nearest competition that it can't even be judged by the same standards. And last night's broadcast of the...Tags: Byron Leftwich, Courtney Upshaw, Baltimore Ravens, American Football Conference, CBS Corp.
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Bob Costas makes Hall of Fame case for Modell on NBC's big stage
The Baltimore SunBob Costas, one of the sports world's most eloquent voices, used one of pop culture's biggest stages to argue for Art Modell's place in pro football's Hall of Fame Sunday. Here's what Costas said during halftime of NBC's Sunday Night opener between the...Tags: NBC (tv network), Baltimore Ravens, Ozzie Newsome, Pittsburgh Steelers, Art Modell
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Coffee Companion (9/10): AFC North scoreboard-watching and gearing up for Ravens-Bengals
The Baltimore SunEvery morning, Monday through Friday, blogger Matt Vensel will hook you up with reading material -- mostly on the Ravens but with some other Baltimore sports stuff, too -- to skim through as you slug down coffee and slack off at the start of your workday....Tags: A.J. Green, Baltimore Ravens, Michael Vick, Peyton Manning, Pittsburgh Steelers
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Phelps looks to put stamp on perhaps the greatest Olympic career ever
In Michael Phelps' telling, one of the greatest Olympic careers almost began with a skinny dip. It was the first trip out of the country for the kid from Rodgers Forge, and he gawked like a tourist — not at monuments or museums — but at the...
Tags: Michael Phelps, Trials, Tiger Woods, Allison Schmitt, Ryan Lochte
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Olympics opening ceremony makes for fine prime-time TV event
The Baltimore SunWhat plays well in a stadium doesn't always work so well on TV. But if the in-person thumbs-up reviews out of London Friday were accurate, the opening ceremonies of the Summer Olympics were a winner on both fronts. By and large, the version shown for...Tags: Summer Olympics, Ryan Seacrest, Theater, NBC (tv network), Michael Phelps
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Established storytelling, new-media outlets for Olympics on NBC
Baltimore's Jim McKay anchored the first American telecast of the Summer Olympics in 1960 from a primitive CBS studio in Grand Central Terminal in New York City. Coverage of the Rome Games totaled 20 hours and cost the network $394,000 in rights fees. On...
Tags: Social Media, Media Industry, Michael Phelps, Oprah Winfrey, New York City
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NBC to air Michael Phelps special in prime time tonight
The Baltimore SunNBC will air a one-hour look at the career of Michael Phelps at 7 tonight, the network announced late Saturday night. "Michael Phelps: America's Golden Champion" will feature what the NBC Sports is calling an "exclusive" interview by Bob Costas done with...Tags: NBC (tv network), CBS Corp., Michael Phelps, Michael Jordan, 60 Minutes (tv program)
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Sunday night Phelps 'special' shows NBC squeezing Olympics for every dollar
The Baltimore SunDoes it feel as if NBC and its affiliates are getting a little greedy with its London coverage? As one who has defended the network's right to try and make as much money as it can off the games in hopes of offsetting the $1.18 billion it paid for rights,...Tags: Weightlifting, NBC (tv network), Michael Phelps, Michael Jordan
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Charlie Batch, Pope Benedict and Haylor are at the top of the online trends this morning
Good morning and welcome to The Sun's daily online trends column. Every morning we'll try to understand the deranged hive mind that is the Internet and figure out what people are interested in. Formerly an internal memo for just Sun staffers, we've...
Tags: Social Media, Charlie Batch, Baltimore Ravens, Lotteries, Central Park
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Jovan Belcher didn't need a gun to kill his girlfriend
Your editorial on the apparent murder-suicide Involving Kansas City Chiefs linebacker Jovan Belcher and his girlfriend, Kasandra Perkins, noted approvingly sportscaster Bob Costas' opinion that "if Jovan Belcher didn't possess a gun, he and Kasandra...Tags: Murder, Subway Transportation
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