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HBO lands rights to inaugural ceremony
NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - HBO will kick off coverage of Inauguration Week with an exclusive Sunday, January 18, telecast of the star-studded opening ceremony, two days before the saturation coverage of President-elect Barack Obama's inauguration begins in earnest. In 1993, HBO paid $1.5 ...
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Obama's Inauguration Sold to Highest Bidder, TV Not This Excited Since Clinton in '93
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias — ... Reuters has a January 7 Hollywood Reporter story informing the world that "HBO lands rights to inaugural ceremony," but this raises the question; why are parts of the inauguration being auctioned to the highest bidder for exclusive coverage? Shouldn't all of the inauguration be something for every American and not relegated just for the TV station that has the most cash? Why is this vaunted man of the people allowing exclusive coverage of his big day to go to a station not available to all Americans equally? ...

Obama’s Inauguration Sold to Highest Bidder, TV Not This Excited Since Clinton in ‘93
RedState: Conservative News and Community — ... Reuters has a January 7 Hollywood Reporter story informing the world that “HBO lands rights to inaugural ceremony,” but this raises the question; why are parts of the inauguration being auctioned to the highest bidder for exclusive coverage? Shouldn’t all of the inauguration be something for every American and not relegated just for the TV station that has the most cash? Why is this vaunted man of the people allowing exclusive coverage of his big day to go to a station not available to all Americans equally? ...

Obama’s Inauguration Sold to Highest Bidder, TV Not This Excited Since Clinton in ‘93
Stop The ACLU — -By Warner Todd Huston Reuters has a January 7 Hollywood Reporter story informing the world that “ HBO lands rights to inaugural ceremony, ” but this raises the question; why are parts of the inauguration being auctioned to the highest bidder for exclusive coverage? Shouldn’t all of the inauguration be something for every American and not relegated just for the TV station that has the most cash? Why is this vaunted man of the people allowing exclusive coverage of his big day to go to a station not available to all Americans equally? It makes one wonder if the Democrat’s claims ...

LGBT Community Upset That HBO Didn’t Air Bishop V. Gene Robinson’s Invocation
Think Progress — ... Yesterday, however, viewers watching HBO — which had exclusive coverage of the opening ceremony — didn’t get to see Robinson’s invocation; the network never aired it. Pam Spaulding of Pam’s House Blend ...

LGBT Community Upset That HBO Didn?t Air Bishop V. Gene Robinson?s Invocation
The Hollywood Liberal — ... at President-elect Obama’s opening ceremony. Yesterday, however, viewers watching HBO — which had exclusive coverage of the opening ceremony — didn’t get to see Robinson’s invocation; the network never aired it. Pam Spaulding of Pam’s House Blend ...

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