"Stephen C. Gallagher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Subject: [USMA:22383] Metric on TV
> Date: Sun, 29 Sep 2002 19:57:55 -0400
> From: "Stephen C. Gallagher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: U.S. Metric Association <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> Last night on "Touched By An Angel", there was a scene
> where one of the actors was describing a meteorite that
> had crashed into his car. He described it as being
> 19 centimetres across.
>
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I certainly hope that I was not the only one to have seen this, but on
Sunday, 2002-09-29, ABC Sports' live coverage of the Formula 1 United
States Grand Prix at Indianapolis, IN was mostly in metric with
relatively few instances of 'Olde Englishe' measures mixed in. The
commentator most often spoke kilometers and 'km/h' (with a few 'MPH'
translations) and ALL of the on-screen graphics were metric only,
including the starting weather conditions.
BTW, I taped it for later viewing both because of my work schedule and
its being on opposite the Packer-Panther game.
;-)
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