Television
- MLB Network televised the 51st annual event, marking the first live games telecast on the baseball specialty channel. José Mota and Tom McCarthy were the English play-by-play announcers, while Cookie Rojas and Uri Berenguer were the color commentators based in the network's studios in Secaucus, New Jersey. When McCarthy took another assignment for a few days, Dan Plesac filled in on color as Berenguer took over play-by-play.
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Famous quotes containing the word television:
“History is not what you thought. It is what you can remember. All other history defeats itself.
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Idealism is the despot of thought, just as politics is the despot of will.”
—Mikhail Bakunin (1814–1876)
“His [O.J. Simpson’s] supporters lined the freeway to cheer him on Friday and commentators talked about his tragedy. Did those people see the photographs of the crime scene and the great blackening pools of blood seeping into the sidewalk? Did battered women watch all this on television and realize more vividly than ever before that their lives were cheap and their pain inconsequential?”
—Anna Quindlen (b. 1952)
“All television ever did was shrink the demand for ordinary movies. The demand for extraordinary movies increased. If any one thing is wrong with the movie industry today, it is the unrelenting effort to astonish.”
—Clive James (b. 1939)