FEATURES
By David Bianculli and David Bianculli,Contributing Writer | January 15, 1994
Today's most enticing television is available before prime time (thanks to the football playoffs on NBC and CBS), after prime time (thanks to "Saturday Night Live"), or on cable -- thanks to HBO's "Comic Relief VI."* "AFC playoffs" (12:30 p.m.-conclusion, WMAR, Channel 2) -- The weather forecast up in Buffalo, where the Bills play the Los Angeles Raiders, calls for snow flurries, high wind and bitter cold -- the perfect kind of game to watch on TV. Marv Albert and Paul Maguire have booth duties.
FEATURES
By David Zurawik | December 5, 2009
It didn't take long for Baltimore Mayor Sheila Dixon to become a national TV punch line in the wake of her guilty verdict. Thursday night, NBC comedian Jay Leno made her part of his monologue. "I love this story," Leno said near the end of a prime-time monologue filled with jokes about Tiger Woods. "The mayor of Baltimore, a woman named Sheila Dixon, found guilty this week of embezzlement. The mayor! The mayor! Embezzlement for spending $1,000 worth of gift cards intended for the homeless on herself."
FEATURES
By Steve McKerrow | January 17, 1992
ON AND OFF THE AIR:* His name sounds more like an actor in some ponderous BBC drama, but Garth Brooks is really hot stuff in the American country music world. So there's no surprise that he is getting his first prime time network special at 9 tonight on NBC (Channel 2)."This is Garth Brooks" includes footage from a summer concert in Dallas -- including big hits "If Tomorrow Never Comes," "Friends in Low Places" and "The Dance."But interviews with the performer, family and friends also profile the artist who swept last year's Academy of Country Music Awards.
SPORTS
April 4, 1991
The Atlanta Braves said yesterday that Deion Sanders was their starting left fielder and leadoff hitter.With that, the Atlanta Falcons' "Prime Time" cornerback had accomplished his goal: becoming the first pro athlete to play football and baseball in the same city, on the same field.Gene Conley had pitched for the Braves in Boston and played basketball for the Celtics there, but on different playing surfaces."It's one of the biggest accomplishments of my life, probably the biggest," said Sanders, the Falcons' No. 1 National Football League draft pick two years ago. "It's like the motto I've got taped inside my football helmet: You gotta believe."
FEATURES
By Michael Hill | January 2, 1991
THERE IS A SLIGHT paunch around the belt now, but the jacket that covers it is still a flashy double-breasted model, its shade of dark blue contrasting smartly with the bright red of the striped shirt, dotted tie and patterned socks.There are some sags and wrinkles in the face, yet it retains an elemental boyishness. And though thick glasses often block the view of the always-hooded eyes, somewhere back there you can still catch a glint of merriment.It's been a quarter century since David Frost first sprang upon the consciousness of the American public, seemingly the model of modern English wit as he hosted the satirical, acerbic "That Was the Week That Was," a brilliant bit of political parody that blazed across prime time like a shooting star in 1964 and 1965.
SPORTS
By RAY FRAGER | July 17, 1992
As if NBC didn't have enough trouble selling its TripleCast -- the $125, three-channel, pay-per-view, oh-my-gosh-I-can't-miss-a-minute-of-the-Olympics package -- along comes the New York City Department of Consumer Affairs.Yesterday, the department served notices of violation under the New York City Consumer Protection Law on NBC and Cablevision, partners in the TripleCast, The Associated Press reported. The city charges deceptive advertising. TripleCast ads, the department says, don't say that events after 5 p.m. will be taped replays.