The third license was obtained by BVI Cable TV, a local cable television service.

Fans began honoring Earnhardt by holding three fingers aloft on the third lap of every NASCAR Cup race, and the television coverage of NASCAR on Fox and NASCAR on NBC went silent for each third lap from Rockingham to the following year's race there in honor of Earnhardt For the first three weeks after Earnhardt's death, on-track incidents brought out the caution flag on lap three.

The third movie contradicts both the second film and the television series, acting as a stand-alone sequel to the original movie.

In December 2008 Stalin was voted third in the nationwide television project Name of Russia ( narrowly behind 13th century prince Alexander Nevsky and Pyotr Stolypin, one of Nicholas II's prime ministers ).

Two private stations, Pro TV and Antena 1, are market leaders, sharing about 32 % of the market, with public television in the third place.

Yet a third incarnation of Richard Kimble surfaced in an updated remake of the original Fugitive series which aired during the 2000-2001 television season.

Enterprise was the first to be produced in high-definition ; the first to be broadcast in HDTV, beginning on October 15, 2003, midway into the third season ; the first to be filmed on digital video ( season 4 ); and the first science fiction television or movie production in history to use video footage taken on another planet ( the Sojourner rover approaching the Yogi Rock, taken by the Mars Pathfinder lander and used in the opening credits ).

The third draft of the script added cameos by two actors from the sister television series Star Trek: Voyager.

The character appears in the first and third novels, the first and third radio series ( and the LP adaptation of the first radio series ), the 1981 television series and the 2005 feature film.

The slogans for American media were typically positioned on the bottom third of television broadcasts, or as banners across the top of newspaper pages.

) In 1967, CLT of Lebanon became the third television station in the world after the Soviet Union and France to broadcast in color, utilizing the French SECAM technology.

Following these movies, a third season of the TV series was produced, broadcast on Japanese television in 1980.

Apple's famous " 1984 " television commercial, introducing the Apple Macintosh computer and directed by Ridley Scott, ran during a timeout in the third quarter.

Herzog also lent his voice to the animated television program The Boondocks in the third season premiere episode It's a Black President, Huey Freeman in which he played himself filming a documentary about the series ' cast of characters and their actions during the 2008 election of Barack Obama.

The show is a spin-off of the television series Hercules: The Legendary Journeys ; the saga began with three episodes in Hercules where Xena was a recurring character originally scheduled to die in her third appearance.

Actor Kevin McCorkle played Grissom in the third season finale of the NBC television show American Dreams.

Most nations established television networks in a similar way: the first television service in each country was operated by a public broadcaster, often funded by a TV licensing fee, and most of them later established a second or even third station providing a greater variety of content.

This was aimed at tackling what it called " media latifundios ", with 27 families controlling a third of radio and television.

In 1997, she won her third Golden Globe award for CBS ' Cybill ( 1995 – 1998 ), a television sitcom, in which the title character — Cybill Sheridan, an actress struggling with hammy parts in B movies and bad soaps — was loosely modeled on herself ( including portrayals of her two ex-husbands ).

The network added its third night of programming in the 1989 television season.

Fox's weekday programming differs from the " big three " networks in several significant ways: There is no morning newscast, no daytime television, no evening newscast, no third hour of primetime, and no late-night talk shows.

In August 2007, a study by ITV television show Undercover Mothers found that a third of steaks served in Hungry Horse and two thirds served in Wetherspoon public houses in the United Kingdom were from Zebu or Zebu cross-breeds, as indicated by the presence of Zebu DNA markers in the meat ( and not that the steaks were 67 % zebu as reported in papers such as the Daily Mail ).

Tarantino's third feature film was Jackie Brown ( 1997 ), an adaptation of Rum Punch, a novel by Elmore Leonard.

Two movies — Lara Croft: Tomb Raider and Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life — have been produced starring American actress Angelina Jolie as Lara Croft, the first of which is still the highest-grossing film adaptation of a video game ever released in US, and third worldwide.

( The movie adaptation of The Hunt for Red October tells Ryan's story differently: Admiral Joshua Painter states that he attended the United States Naval Academy and that in the " summer of his third year, he went down in a chopper accident in the Med.

The first screen adaptation of an Asimov robot stories was the third episode of the British television series Out of This World based on " Little Lost Robot " ( 1962 ).

As a result, Barker backtracked on his earlier decision and produced a third series of Porridge, as well as a film adaptation.

In 2004 Lumley appeared as the " Woman with the Sydney Opera House Head " in Dirk Maggs's long-awaited radio adaptation of the third book of the Douglas Adams series The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

In the film adaptation of Dan Brown ’ s Angels and Demons ( 2009 ), the third of four kidnapped cardinals is burned to death, after previously being branded with the ambigram “ fire ”; later in the film the main villain commits self-immolation in St Peter ’ s Basilica.

In a period where ideas for cartoons had run dry ( comedy was heavily scrutinized for violence, and everything else seemed to copy the popular Scooby-Doo format ), Filmation's strong point was its adaptations of popular TV shows, movies and other works, although at least one show, " M * U * S * H " ( the third animated segment on Uncle Croc's Block ), while not a direct adaptation was inspired by the film ( and later TV series ) M * A * S * H.

In 1989, Harris played the beggar king J. J. Peachum in Mack the Knife, the third screen adaptation of The Threepenny Opera.

A six-volume original video animation adaptation of the later half of the series ' third story arc, Stardust Crusaders, was released from 1993 to 1994 by Studio APPP.

The Fruits Basket anime adaptation has also been well received, ranking third in Anihabara's list of top televised anime series in Japan for February 2002.

Herrmann used large sections of his score for the inaugural broadcast of The Campbell Playhouse, an adaptation of Rebecca, for the feature film Jane Eyre ( 1943 ), the third film in which Welles starred.

A third adaptation in 1943 featured Charles Boyer, Joan Fontaine and Alexis Smith.

An adaptation of Joyce Maynard's novel, the black comedy starred Nicole Kidman as a murderously ambitious weather girl ; it also featured Van Sant favorite Matt Dillon as her hapless husband and, the third Phoenix sibling in as many projects, Joaquin Phoenix, as her equally hapless lover ( River had died from a drug overdose a year and half earlier ).

A third adaptation, also titled The Thing, was released on October 14, 2011 and serves as a prequel to the events of Carpenter's film.

An adaptation of the third book is to be released in 2012.

* Omar Kháyyám for solo voices chorus and orchestra-Part I ( Birmingham Festival, 1906 ), Part II ( Cardiff Festival 1907 ), Part III ( Birmingham Festival 1909, BBCSO / Del Mar, 27 November 1968, first broadcast performance ); complete ( based on the third version of Fitzgerald's adaptation, London Choral Society / Arthur Fagge, Queen's Hall, February 1910 ; Vienna, February, 1912, BBC Symphony Orchestra under Norman Del Mar, 5 – 6 January 1979 )

Favreau was the third director attached to John Carter of Mars, the film adaptation of Edgar Rice Burroughs ' swashbuckling space hero.

The first two parts, " Endecott the Red Cross " and " My Kinsman, Major Molineux " were stage adaptations of short stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne, and the third part, " Benito Cereno ," was a stage adaptation of a novella by Herman Melville.

This was the third Hindi film adaptation of Sharat Chandra Chattopadhyay's novel of the same name.

It is thought that this refers to space adaptation syndrome experienced by about one third of astronauts during the first few days of a spaceflight.

* In 2001, the third video game adaptation AURYN Quest was developed by the German studio Attaction.