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  • registered

    truth and beauty

    Member since 04/24/2005.

    152 posts. Last post 10 years ago.
    17 years ago 11/13/2006 10:09am EST
    re: Media Mogul

    do you really want national coverage knowing how they would do it?

    2+ hours of a marathon is plenty of time to do a human interest story on each of the runners in the race...and then do interviews with all the 2:22:0x guys who just missed it. They could sandwich all that in between the start and the finish with breaks for commercials, just like they do for the 10K at the track and field trials.

    Coverage like that is what makes both the informed viewer, and the average joe 6 pack change the channel to catch poker.

  • fatty mcfat

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    17 years ago 11/13/2006 10:50am EST
    re: justafan

    I think generically 5K/10K refer to road races, while the same distances 5000 m and 10000 m are track races.

  • Joseph McVeigh

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    17 years ago 11/13/2006 11:24am EST
    re: pfitz ftw

    In 1996, highlights of the USOT Marathon Trials (presented by the institution now known as Bank of America) were broadcast nationally, not in their entirety, and not live nationally.

    The men's race started at 9 AM on Feb 17. The women's race was a week before the men's race. At about 2 PM Feb 17, NBC aired an approx 1 or 2 hour broadcast of highlights of both races in one show.

  • sj quik

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    17 years ago 11/13/2006 3:34pm EST
    re: JohnnyBigOnes

    JohnnyBigOnes wrote:

    So why is Poker so popular on tv anyway?

    because millions of americans can do it themselves. and, there is a significant amount of money involved.

    if running was something that:

    1) didn't hurt.

    2) you could do with friends over beers on a friday night.

    3) paid lots of money, and you too could try your "luck" at it in vegas

    ...then people would care as much as they do about poker.

    sad to say, but even some runners (not me) would rather watch poker than running.

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