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Atlantic, The, March, 2005 by Matthew Quirk
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MARCH 4
ESPN Launches (Another!) Network, Fights Feds
Shortly before "March Madness" begins, on the 15th, ESPN will launch its first college-sports network, ESPNU. Interested spectators will include the Justice Department, which has quietly been pursuing an antitrust investigation of ESPN for such practices as "warehousing" (buying broadcast rights for a conference but airing only the top football and basketball games) and forcing teams to schedule games at odd hours in order to receive coverage. ESPNU's added coverage should help mitigate these practices.
MARCH 9
Dan Rather Retires
When Dan Rather assumed the anchor's chair at CBS, upon Walter Cronkite's retirement, he was reportedly so cowed by his predecessor's reputation that he refused to sit in the actual chair Cronkite had used, and crouched behind the anchor desk. Thus began a long, strange ride. "Gunga Dan" dressed as a mujahid for a trip to Afghanistan (the Soviets claimed ...
