NBC's coverage of the opening ceremonies for this summer's Beijing Olympics drew record ratings for any games held outside the U.S., as an estimated 69.9 million American viewers tuned in. But during ...

Few of the 4 billion spectators dazzled by last Friday's opening ceremony would have been aware that the spectacular 'giant footprint' fireworks seen in the live broadcast were composed with computer ...

A corrupted computer file is to blame for the three-minute delay to Monday night’s start of the fireworks show at the Space Needle. Two technicians had to press buttons to manually set off about 5,000 ...