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- <text id=91TT2425>
- <title>
- Oct. 28, 1991: View Points:Television
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- Oct. 28, 1991 Ollie North:"Reagan Knew Everything"
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- VIEW POINTS, Page 101
- TELEVISION
- No Hits but Plenty of Bobbles
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- <p>By Richard Zoglin
- </p>
- <p> Let us sit upon the mound and tell sad stories of the
- death of NETWORK BASEBALL. CBS, the tale begins, spent a
- whopping $1 billion for the right to telecast major league games
- for four years. Now, after sustaining huge losses from last
- year's abbreviated postseason, the network seems to wish the
- sport would just go away. Regular-season telecasts have been
- reduced to a meager handful. Pregame shows during the league
- championship series were entirely eliminated, to minimize the
- ratings damage. The games themselves have featured such
- distractions as Andrea Joyce and Lesley Visser roaming the
- stands for human-interest angles (and a few extra female
- viewers). The camerawork has been solid, but the announcing just
- adequate. Play-by-play veteran Jack Buck bobbles too many easy
- chances. (Was it a strike or a checked swing? Watch the ump, not
- Jack.) Tim McCarver, his partner in the booth, knows his stuff
- but tends to babble. And ratings, for all but the final two
- games, were down once again. Somewhere Red Barber is weeping.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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