Campaign aides said the mention on national television caused a tenfold spike in Internet traffic in an instant.
I retired after last season, but this preseason the mere glimpse of training camp images on television caused my back and knees to begin aching.
But why do I get the feeling that if these Olympics were happening in Chicago or Los Angeles, the story would by now be a serious cable television cause célèbre?
On August 3rd the screening of "Castle in the Sky" on Japanese television caused an unprecedented surge of tweets: 143,199 within a single second, or 25 times the usual volume, according to a blog post by Raffi Krikorian, a senior engineer at the microblog service.
Now, after becoming a byword for the failure of high-rise housing, and following a dramatic U-turn during the Commonwealth Games when a proposal to blow them up on live television caused an outcry, the remaining structures of the Red Road flats will, at last, be demolished.
Michael Davies, the executive producer of "Who Wants to be a Millionaire," has this to say about the dispute: "This is an indication of the turmoil in television caused by a whole category of programs that is diversifying a medium that has been fairly straightforward for the last 25 years".
The BBC cut it altogether when Don't Look Now premiered on UK television, causing a flood of complaints from viewers.
As her father recovers, in a full-body cast, he is forced to watch television, causing him to become addicted once again, much to his family's relief.
