Viacom's subsequent merger with Blockbuster added video rental and music retail operations to its considerable film, cable, television, and publishing holdings, making it one of the most diversified entertainment companies in the world.
Clouseau cartoons and the animated pink panther of the opening film credits achieved considerable popularity on television.
In their place, there is a chancellor who regularly deploys his seductive voice to considerable advantage on television and calls, as he did this month, for Germany to engage with Russia "without illusions, without sentimentality" and "without denying our considerable respective interests".
But so far, neither President Obama nor Mitt Romney has invested considerable money on television advertising in the state and a new Quinnipiac University/New York Times/CBS News poll of likely voters in Pennsylvania found that Mr. Obama has an advantage of 11 percentage points.
Late in his career, he had considerable success in television roles.
But he's far from the battlefield himself in his hideout in Abbottabad, Pakistan, where he seems to spend considerable time watching television.
Children who spent considerable time watching television showed a tiny but measurable higher frequency of -- from the list above -- "conduct problems"; the same wasn't true for children who spent similar time with games.
Kristin Thompson argues that The Simpsons uses a "flurry of cultural references, intentionally inconsistent characterization, and considerable self-reflexivity about television conventions and the status of the programme as a television show".
Television enjoys considerable appeal; programming includes locally produced material in addition to imports from other Arab countries and from abroad.
