In a war, urgent coverage from CBS News would take precedence over the tournament, which the Viacom-owned network is paying $6 billion to televise through 2013.
By now, when a bomb goes off, we are accustomed to clucking at televised reports through storefront windows and making reassuring calls to loved ones.
The privately-owned group made its investments at the height of the sports rights gold rush, when broadcasters were convinced that broadband technology and an explosion in popularity for digital TV would push the public appetite for televised sport through the roof.
The experimental simulcast was to continue for three Friday "Supper Club" shows, but had gone so well, NBC decided to extend the televised version through August 1949.
There are 13 televised debates scheduled through the end of January for the Republican presidential candidates.
Yet as the documentary progresses, we move from personal footage through televised performance to the flashbulb glare of global surveillance.
The two-town ceremonies began in 1953, the first year the Oscars were televised, and continued through 1957, covering the Academy Awards presented for movies made from 1952 through 1956.
The often spontaneously improvised liturgy of the Pentecostal tent missions was transformed into patterns that became familiar to a wider audience through televised evangelism.
Yesterday even Bob Kerrey, a committee member who stoutly favored the war in Iraq, said that it is now helping terrorist recruitment through televised images of "largely a Christian army in a Muslim nation".
Today, in his folksy Texas twang, General Franks conceded that he had not come close to building the inspiring war persona that the blustery General Schwarzkopf did so effectively in the 1991 Persian Gulf war through televised briefings and selective interviews.
