CBS Sports' Lesley Visser, voted the No. 1 female sportscaster of all time by the American Sportscasters Association, is about to break new ground as the first woman analyst for a television broadcast of an NFL game. ...more

September 3, 2009

Iran's most powerful figure dismissed President Barack Obama's extraordinary Persian New Year gesture, insisting Saturday - in an apparent attempt to keep the political establishment unified in an anti-American posture - that the U.S. administration's actions must match its rhetoric before Iran would alter its foreign policy. ...more

March 22, 2009

NBC has won the latest weekly Nielsen Media Research ratings race with the most-watched Super Bowl telecast ever, according to the network. ...more

February 5, 2009

NBC has won the most recent weekly Nielsen Media ratings race with the most-watched Super Bowl and the most-watched prime time network telecast ever, according to the network. ...more

February 4, 2009

Raymond James Financial Inc. said it had no history of marketing Madoff Investment Securities and no known exposure to the alleged Ponzi scheme that may cost investors billions of dollars. The St. Petersburg-based financial services company responded in a news release to a CNBC report on Friday that the brokerage had marketed funds in which Madoff was involved. ...more

December 16, 2008

It was preseason - a week before the Florida Gators would begin practice - and Coach Urban Meyer was doing obligatory promotional duties for television broadcast partner Sun Sports. ...more

September 14, 2008

Big deal. The plan is this: Wednesday night, on cable television broadcast around the world, someone by the name of Criss Angel is going to attempt to escape an abandoned Clearwater Beach hotel before it blows up. ...more

July 27, 2008

"The World's Fattest Pets and Me." That was the name of a recent television broadcast by the English comedian and broadcaster, Mark Dolan. Dolan literally traveled to several cities around the world in search of the world's fattest pet. I was dismayed to learn that his first stops were here in America. Not that I am unaware of the fact that many American pets are grossly overweight, but this brought home how prevalent it is. ...more

June 8, 2008

Although the inspiration for the Epiphany Celebration is pretty straightforward, the event itself is a very large, complicated operation that requires a small army of dedicated volunteers. Thousands will descend on the city tomorrow to witness the St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church Epiphany Celebration, the largest of its kind in the United States, a religious spectacle. ...more

January 9, 2008