Poker has been on television for quite a while; CBS, an American network, broadcast the World Series of Poker in 1978.

扑克上电视已经有段时间了；一家美国的广播网哥伦比亚广播公司（CBS）在1978年就播放了世界扑克系列赛。

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The past couple of years have seen a series of huge takeovers and mergers among network operators and makers of telecoms equipment around the world.

在过去的几年中，世界各个角落都能看到网络运营商与电信业之间一连串的大规模收购与重组。

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The network was broadcasting the World Series from Candlestick Park when the quake struck.

地震发生时，该电视网正在烛台棒球场直播世界系列赛。

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The league drew an average of 269, 000 viewers per game on ESPN2 this season, or a small fraction of what the sports network draws for the World Series of Poker.

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Thanks to a stable schedule of popular newcomers (Glee and The Cleveland Show) and longer-running hits (House and Bones) as well as the highly rated World Series, Fox was the only major broadcast network to post a year-over-year uptick in the coveted demographic (14%, according The Nielsen Company).

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The network has made a lot of money selling advertising for the World Series and the Fall Classic has also helped Rupert Murdoch build Fox into a valuable brand by increasing ratings for other programs (who can forget the flogging CBS took after the network lost football to Fox in 1994?).

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