Mr Ryan's jabs at the regime did not disqualify him and selected members of his delegation from a seven-hour audience with Mr Castro, in which he, and occasionally they, ranged over everything from baseball to human rights.
Indeed, given the lateness of the hour, the audience questions only served to delay the livelier exchanges which were broadcast near midnight.
The two-hour play asks the audience to know some American history and be aware of such figures as the politician Barbara Jordan, Richards' press aide Bill Cryer and the death row inmate Johnny Frank Garrett. (Rob Lowe's sex tape also gets a nod.) One of biggest rounds of applause is heard for Richards' defense of her concealed weapons veto, which has resonance now.
It might be considered a caffeine buzz kill given the audience and the hour.
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The audience for the hour-long show consisted only of specially invited guests, while some scenes were filmed beforehand to maintain secrecy.
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And yet, for all its banality, this is a highly entertaining production, which keeps the majority of its audience amused for hour after hour.
Steve led the audience through the hour-plus event.
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By the end of the hour-long performance, the audience sees that all the subjects that come under Mrs.
Also announced during Tuesday's hour-long presentation to an audience of 500: Another four ad-supported, large-scale projects from DreamWorks Animation, Telepictures and Endemol USA, the reality-giant behind Big Brother and Fear Factor.
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On 25 November, the BBC World Service is broadcasting a special one-hour debate in front of a Kinshasa audience: Is DR Congo a failed state?
The three-hour opening ceremony had an estimated global television audience of one billion people.
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In fact, when the Olympics went head to head with Idol in the 9 p.m. hour, the Games charmed an even larger audience of 30.1 million.
"I would scrap the planned western bypass, put more investment into public transport and cycle lanes and introduce a 20 mile an hour residential limit, " he told the audience.
For nearly an hour, President Bush took unscripted questions from the audience at the City Club, an unusual move for him.
Yet here's something interesting: Of the three dramas in the hour, the Connie Britton series had the weakest audience retention from its first half to its second.
The radio audience had just heard a half-hour program with Conan interviewing Koppel about the documentary. (It was prerecorded.) Ted Koppel considered kicking off his live town meeting by identifying the last speaker in the documentary, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, and then announcing the town meeting.
Wielding a black Magic Marker, he charted the big bang of channel expansion and audience fragmentation that has propelled television history so far, from the age of the three networks, each with a mass audience, to the hundreds of cable channels, each serving a niche audience twenty-four-hour news, food, sports, weather, music and on to the dawning age of Internet video, bringing channels by the tens of thousands.
Among the audience-pleasing moments of the two-hour event was the response of Ohio Rep. Dennis Kucinich to his chance to question a candidate.
Audience members groaned as Schiller spent more than an hour walking through new features for Apple's iLife and iWork desktop software.
At the premiere a hauntingly effective hour-long performance legislators were joined in the audience by diplomats, Holocaust survivors, former Spiegelgrund patients and other invited guests in an ornate chamber lined with Ionic columns and used for special legislative sessions.
He made five traditional western and Caribbean holiday drinks, made sure everyone in the audience had a taste of each, ran well-over his hour time allotment and still wanted more time to finish.
The Scottish Broadcasting Commission showed how that question has been superseded by the spread of digital channels, with the audience fracturing into niches, offering new opportunities for much more than an hour of news.
Soon after his release, Brown was on stage again with an audience that included millions of cable television viewers nationwide who watched the three-hour, pay-per-view concert at Wiltern Theatre in Los Angeles.
But about an hour into RIM's presentation Wednesday, Mr. Heins delivered some unwelcome news to the audience in the hangar-like space, announcing the delayed U.S. availability of the phones.
The audience for most talk-radio shows turns over four times during the course of an hour interview.
"You can do all the 'News Hour with Jim Lehrer' you want, but if Michelle Obama wants to immediately reach a mass audience, you come here, " Us Weekly Editor Janice Min said.
For an hour, listeners can play along as Eisenberg puts questions to a rotating band of puzzle gurus, audience members and special mystery guests, who then takes a turn in the contestant's chair facing trivia games written especially for him or her.
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