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Passage: On December 19, 2006, ESPN announced the purchase of a minority stake in the AFL. This deal included television rights for the ESPN family of networks. ESPN would televise a minimum of 17 regular season games, most on Monday nights, and nine playoff games, including ArenaBowl XXI on ABC. The deal resulted in added exposure on ESPN's SportsCenter. However, after the original AFL filed for bankruptcy, this arrangement did not carry over to the new AFL, which is a separate legal entity.

Question: On what date did ESPN buy a minority share of the AFL?

Question: At minimum, how many regular season games did the AFL agree to broadcast?

Question: On what day would most of the games televised on the ESPN networks be played?

Question: What network broadcast ArenaBowl XXI?

Question: Under the deal, how many AFL playoff games did ESPN broadcast each year?
Passage: The AFL also had a regional-cable deal with FSN, where FSN regional affiliates in AFL markets carried local team games. In some areas, such as with the Arizona Rattlers, Fox Sports affiliates still carry the games.

Question: Affiliates of what network broadcast Arizona Rattlers games?

Question: What cable network did the AFL sign a regional contract with?
Passage: After its return in 2010, the AFL had its national television deal with the NFL Network for a weekly Friday night game. All AFL games not on the NFL Network could be seen for free online, provided by Ustream.

Question: After a hiatus, in what year did the AFL begin operations again?

Question: What cable television network signed a broadcast deal with the AFL in 2010?

Question: On what day would AFL games be shown on NFL Network?

Question: What streaming service broadcast AFL games that were not on NFL Network?

Question: What was the cost to watch AFL games on Ustream?
Passage: The NFL Network ceased airing Arena Football League games partway through the 2012 season as a result of ongoing labor problems within the league. Briefly, the games were broadcast on a tape delay to prevent the embarrassment that would result should the players stage a work stoppage immediately prior to a scheduled broadcast. (In at least once incidence this actually happened, resulting in a non-competitive game being played with replacement players, and further such incidents were threatened.) Once the labor issues were resolved, the NFL Network resumed the practice of broadcasting a live Friday night game. NFL Network dropped the league at the end of the 2012 season.

Question: In what year did AFL games temporarily cease to be broadcast on NFL Network?

Question: Why did the temporary cessation of game broadcasts occur?

Question: Why did the NFL Network begin to broadcast games again?

Question: On what day was an AFL game broadcast live on NFL Network?

Question: At what time of day was an AFL game shown on Fridays on NFL Network?
Passage: For the 2013 season, the league's new national broadcast partner was the CBS Sports Network. CBSSN would air 19 regular season games and two playoff games. CBS would also air the ArenaBowl, marking the first time since 2008 that the league's finale aired on network television. Regular season CBSSN broadcast games are usually on Saturday nights. As the games are being shown live, the start times are not uniform as with most football broadcast packages, but vary with the time zone in which the home team is located. This means that the AFL may appear either prior to or following the CBSSN's featured Major League Lacrosse game.

Question: Who was the AFL's 2013 national broadcast partner?

Question: How many regular season games were shown by CBS Sports Network in 2013?

Question: How many 2013 playoff games did CBSSN broadcast?

Question: On what channel was the 2013 ArenaBowl broadcast?

Question: In 2013, on what day were Arena Football League games usually broadcast on CBS Sports Network?
Passage: Starting in 2014, ESPN returned to the AFL as broadcast partners, with weekly games being shown on CBS Sports Network, ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNEWS along with all games being broadcast on ESPN3 for free live on WatchESPN. ArenaBowl XXVII was also broadcast on ESPN. Most teams also have a local TV station broadcast their games locally and all games are available on local radio.

Question: Who was the Arena Football League's 2014 broadcast partner?

Question: What app were Arena Football League games broadcast on in 2014?

Question: Along with the ESPN networks, on what network were 2014 AFL games broadcast?

Question: On what channel could one watch ArenaBowl XXVII live?
Passage: The first video game based on the AFL was Arena Football for the C-64 released in 1988. On May 18, 2000, Kurt Warner's Arena Football Unleashed was released by Midway Games for the PlayStation game console. On February 7, 2006 EA Sports released Arena Football for the PlayStation 2 and Xbox. EA Sports released another AFL video game, titled Arena Football: Road to Glory, on February 21, 2007, for the PlayStation 2.

Question: What was the first Arena Football League video game?

Question: For what system was the first Arena Football League video game released?

Question: In what year was the first Arena Football League video game released?

Question: On what date was Kurt Warner's Arena Football Unleashed released?

Question: Who made Kurt Warner's Arena Football Unleashed?
Passage: In 2001, Jeff Foley published War on the Floor: An Average Guy Plays in the Arena Football League and Lives to Write About It. The book details a journalist's two preseasons (1999 and 2000) as an offensive specialist/writer with the now-defunct Albany Firebirds. The 5-foot-6 (170 cm), self-described "unathletic writer" played in three preseason games and had one catch for −2 yards.

Question: Who wrote War on the Floor: An Average Guy Plays in the Arena Football League and Lives to Write About It?

Question: In what year was War on the Floor released?

Question: What team did Jeff Foley play for?

Question: How many games did Jeff Foley play in?

Question: Along with 1999, in what preseason did Foley play for the Firebirds?
Passage: The AFL currently runs as under the single-entity model, with the league owning the rights to the teams, players, and coaches. The single-entity model was adopted in 2010 when the league emerged from bankruptcy. Prior to that, the league followed the franchise model more common in North American professional sports leagues; each team essentially operated as its own business and the league itself was a separate entity which in exchange for franchise fees paid by the team owners provided rules, officials, scheduling and the other elements of organizational structure. A pool of money is allotted to teams to aid in travel costs.

Question: In what year did the AFL begin operating under the single-entity model?

Question: Who owns the rights to the players under the single-entity model?

Question: What model of ownership is commonly used in American professional sports?
Passage: Average attendance for AFL games were around 10,000–11,000 per game in the 1990s, though during the recession connected to the dot-com bubble and the September 11, 2001 attacks average attendance dropped below 10,000 for several years. From the start of the 2004 season until the final season of the original league in 2008, average attendance was above 12,000, with 12,392 in 2007. Eleven of the seventeen teams in operation in 2007 had average attendance figures over 13,000. In 2008, the overall attendance average increased to 12,957, with eight teams exceeding 13,000 per game.

Question: What was the normal per game attendance of AFL games in the 1990s?

Question: Along with the recession, what event is held to have decreased per-game attendance below 10,000?

Question: What was the average per-game attendance in 2007?

Question: In 2008, what was the average attendance for an AFL game?

Question: During the 2008 season, how many teams averaged more than 13,000 spectators per game?
Passage: In 2010, the first year of the reconstituted league following bankruptcy, the overall attendance average decreased to 8,135, with only one team (Tampa Bay) exceeding 13,000 per game.

Question: What was the AFL's average per-game attendance in 2010?

Question: In the 2010 season, how many teams drew an average of more than 13,000 fans per game?

Question: What team drew more than 13,000 fans per game in 2010?
Passage: Adult contemporary music (AC) is a style of music, ranging from 1960s vocal and 1970s soft rock music to predominantly ballad-heavy music of the present day, with varying degrees of easy listening, pop, soul, rhythm and blues, quiet storm, and rock influence. Adult contemporary is rather a continuation of the easy listening and soft rock style that became popular in the 1960s and 1970s with some adjustments that reflect the evolution of pop/rock music.

Question: Along with pop, soul, rhythm and blues, quiet storm, and rock, what musical style influenced adult contemporary?

Question: What was the prevailing style of adult contemporary music in the 1970s?

Question: What type of adult contemporary music was popular in the 1960s?

Question: What does the acronym AC stand for?

Question: Along with easy listening, adult contemporary is a modern day continuation of what style of music?
Passage: Adult contemporary tends to have lush, soothing and highly polished qualities where emphasis on melody and harmonies is accentuated. It is usually melodic enough to get a listener's attention, and is inoffensive and pleasurable enough to work well as background music. Like most of pop music, its songs tend to be written in a basic format employing a verse–chorus structure.

Question: Along with harmonies, what aspect of music is emphasized in adult contemporary?

Question: What is the typical structure of an adult contemporary song?

Question: With what broader style of music does adult contemporary share its structure?

Question: Along with being pleasurable, what trait makes adult contemporary appropriate for background music?
Passage: Adult contemporary is heavy on romantic sentimental ballads which mostly use acoustic instruments (though bass guitar is usually used) such as acoustic guitars, pianos, saxophones, and sometimes an orchestral set. The electric guitars are normally faint and high-pitched. However, recent adult contemporary music may usually feature synthesizers (and other electronics, such as drum machines).

Question: What type of song is frequently seen in the adult contemporary genre?

Question: Along with synthesizers, what electronic instruments sometimes appear in modern adult contemporary?

Question: What general type of instruments tend to be used in adult contemporary?

Question: What electric instrument is often seen in adult contemporary?

Question: Along with being faint, what characteristic is usually present in electric guitars used in adult contemporary?
Passage: AC radio stations may play mainstream music, but they will exclude hip hop, dance tracks, hard rock, and some forms of teen pop, as they are less popular amongst the target demographic of these radio stations, which is intended for an adult audience. AC radio often targets the 25–44 age group, the demographic that has received the most attention from advertisers since the 1960s. A common practice in recent years is that many adult contemporary stations play less newer music because they also give ample airtime to hits of the past, so the de-emphasis on new songs slows the progression of the AC chart.

Question: What age group does adult contemporary radio typically focus on?

Question: Along with teen pop, dance and hard rock, what form of music is typically not heard on AC radio?

Question: When did advertisers begin to focus on the adult contemporary age demographic?

Question: What type of music are AC stations noted as playing less of versus hits of the past?
Passage: Over the years, AC has spawned subgenres including "hot AC", "soft AC" (also known as "lite AC"), "urban AC", "rhythmic AC", and "Christian AC" (a softer type of contemporary Christian music). Some stations play only "hot AC", "soft AC", or only one of the variety of subgenres. Therefore, it is not usually considered a specific genre of music; it is merely an assemblage of selected tracks from musicians of many different genres.

Question: What is lite AC otherwise known as?

Question: What is Christian AC a subgenre of?

Question: Along with hot, soft, urban and Christian AC, what is another prominent time of adult contemporary music?
Passage: Adult contemporary traces its roots to the 1960s easy listening format, which adopted a 70-80% instrumental - 20-30% vocal mix. A few offered 90% instrumentals, and a handful were entirely instrumental. The easy listening format, as it was first known, was born of a desire by some radio stations in the late 1950s and early 1960s to continue playing current hit songs but distinguish themselves from being branded as "rock and roll" stations. Billboard first published the Easy Listening chart July 17, 1961, with 20 songs; the first number one was "Boll Weevil Song" by Brook Benton. The chart described itself as "not too far out in either direction".

Question: From what decade of easy listening radio does adult contemporary trace its heritage?

Question: Generally speaking, what percentage of music on easy listening stations was instrumental?

Question: On what date was the Billboard easy listening chart first published?

Question: How many songs were on the first Billboard easy listening chart?

Question: Who performed the first #1 on the easy listening chart?
Passage: Initially, the vocalists consisted of artists such as Frank Sinatra, Doris Day, Johnny Mathis, Connie Francis, Nat King Cole, Perry Como, and others. The custom recordings were usually instrumental versions of current or recent rock and roll or pop hit songs, a move intended to give the stations more mass appeal without selling out. Some stations would also occasionally play earlier big band-era recordings from the 1940s and early 1950s.

Question: Along with Frank Sinatra, Doris Day, Johnny Mathis, Nat King Cole, and Perry Como, who was a prominent early adult contemporary radio artist?

Question: What type of covers of pop and rock songs were usually played on adult contemporary?

Question: What songs from the 1940s and 1950s would adult contemporary stations play?
Passage: After 1965, differences between the Hot 100 chart and the Easy Listening chart became more pronounced. Better reflecting what middle of the road stations were actually playing, the composition of the chart changed dramatically. As rock music continued to harden, there was much less crossover between the Hot 100 and Easy Listening chart than there had been in the early half of the 1960s. Roger Miller, Barbra Streisand and Bobby Vinton were among the chart's most popular performers.

Question: What chart did the Easy Listening chart begin to diverge from?

Question: In what year did the Easy Listening and Hot 100 charts begin to diverge?

Question: Along with Roger Miller and Barbra Streisand, who was a successful Easy Listening artist in this era?

Question: Why did the crossover between Hot 100 and Easy Listening decrease?
Passage: One big impetus for the development of the AC radio format was that, when rock and roll music first became popular in the mid-1950s, many more conservative radio stations wanted to continue to play current hit songs while shying away from rock. These middle of the road (or "MOR") stations also frequently included older, pre-rock-era adult standards and big band titles to further appeal to adult listeners who had grown up with those songs.

Question: During what decade did rock and roll music first rise to popularity?

Question: What does the acronym MOR stand for?

Question: Along with pre-rock standards, what type of older songs did MOR stations play?
Passage: Another big impetus for the evolution of the AC radio format was the popularity of easy listening or "beautiful music" stations, stations with music specifically designed to be purely ambient. Whereas most easy listening music was instrumental, created by relatively unknown artists, and rarely purchased, AC was an attempt to create a similar "lite" format by choosing certain tracks (both hit singles and album cuts) of popular artists.

Question: What was another term for easy listening stations?

Question: Easy listening was predominately what type of music?

Question: What types of tracks from popular artists did adult contemporary radio play?

Question: What type of format were adult contemporary and easy listening stations meant to share?
Passage: Hard rock had been established as a mainstream genre by 1965. From the end of the 1960s, it became common to divide mainstream rock music into soft and hard rock, with both emerging as major radio formats in the US. Soft rock was often derived from folk rock, using acoustic instruments and putting more emphasis on melody and harmonies. Major artists included Barbra Streisand, Carole King, Cat Stevens, James Taylor and Bread.

Question: As of what year was hard rock a mainstream type of music?

Question: Along with soft rock, what type of music made up mainstream rock music in the late 1960s?

Question: What type of instruments were prominent in soft rock?

Question: What genre of music was soft rock descended from?

Question: Along with Barbra Streisand, Carole King, Cat Stevens and Bread, who was a prominent soft rock artist of this era?
Passage: The Hot 100 and Easy Listening charts became more similar again toward the end of the 1960s and into the early and mid-1970s, when the texture of much of the music played on Top 40 radio once more began to soften. The adult contemporary format began evolving into the sound that later defined it, with rock-oriented acts as Chicago, The Eagles, and Elton John becoming associated with the format.

Question: At the end of what decade did the Hot 100 and Easy Listening charts begin to converge?

Question: During the middle and early parts of what decade did the similarity of Easy Listening and Hot 100 increase?

Question: How did Top 40 radio what ifmusic change during this era?

Question: With Elton John and the Eagles, what was a prominent adult contemporary artist in this period?
Passage: Soft rock reached its commercial peak in the mid-to-late 1970s with acts such as Toto, England Dan & John Ford Coley, Air Supply, Seals and Crofts, America and the reformed Fleetwood Mac, whose Rumours (1977) was the best-selling album of the decade. By 1977, some radio stations, like New York's WTFM and NBC-owned WYNY, had switched to an all-soft rock format. By the 1980s, tastes had changed and radio formats reflected this change, including musical artists such as Journey. Walter Sabo and his team at NBC brought in major personalities from the AM Band to the FM Band taking the format from a background to a foreground listening experience. The addition of major radio stars such as Dan Daniel, Steve O'Brien, Dick Summers, Don Bleu and Tom Parker made it possible to fully monetize the format and provide the foundation for financial success enjoyed to this day

Question: During what period was adult contemporary its most commercially successful?

Question: What artist released the best selling album of the 1970s?

Question: In what year was the best selling album of the 1970s released?

Question: What radio stationed owned by NBC played only soft rock?

Question: Who was a prominent figure at NBC's radio division?
Passage: Radio stations played Top 40 hits regardless of genre; although, most were in the same genre until the mid-1970s when different forms of popular music started to target different demographic groups, such as disco vs. hard rock. This evolved into specialized radio stations that played specific genres of music, and generally followed the evolution of artists in those genres.

Question: What genre of music was was listening to by a different demographic than hard rock?

Question: In what decade did genres begin to diverge on the basis of demographic groups?
Passage: By the early 1970s, softer songs by artists like The Carpenters, Anne Murray, John Denver, Barry Manilow, and even Streisand, began to be played more often on "Top 40" radio and others were added to the mix on many AC stations. Also, some of these stations even played softer songs by Elvis Presley, Linda Ronstadt, Elton John, Rod Stewart, Billy Joel, and other rock-based artists.

Question: Along with Linda Ronstadt, Elton John, Rod Stewart and Elvis Presley, what rock musician sometimes had songs featured on adult contemporary radio?

Question: During what period were artists like Anne Murray and Barbra Streisand featured on Top 40 radio?
Passage: Much of the music recorded by singer-songwriters such as Diana Ross, James Taylor, Carly Simon, Carole King and Janis Ian got as much, if not more, airplay on this format than on Top 40 stations. Easy Listening radio also began including songs by artists who had begun in other genres, such as rock and roll or R&B. In addition, several early disco songs, did well on the Adult Contemporary format.

Question: Along with rock and roll, what genre of music was sometimes featured on Easy Listening radio?

Question: What genre of music was surprisingly successful on adult contemporary radio?

Question: What type of musicians were artists such as Diana Ross, James Taylor, Carly Simon, Carole King and Janis Ian?
Passage: On April 7, 1979, the Easy Listening chart officially became known as Adult Contemporary, and those two words have remained consistent in the name of the chart ever since. Adult contemporary music became one of the most popular radio formats of the 1980s. The growth of AC was a natural result of the generation that first listened to the more "specialized" music of the mid-late 1970s growing older and not being interested in the heavy metal and rap/hip-hop music that a new generation helped to play a significant role in the Top 40 charts by the end of the decade.

Question: When did the Adult Contemporary chart receive its current name?

Question: What was the Adult Contemporary chart previously known as?

Question: Along with rap/hip-hop, what genre of music were aging listeners not as interested in?

Question: During what decade did adult contemporary become a very popular format for radio?
Passage: Mainstream AC itself has evolved in a similar fashion over the years; traditional AC artists like Barbra Streisand, the Carpenters, Dionne Warwick, Barry Manilow, John Denver, and Olivia Newton-John found it harder to have major Top 40 hits as the 1980s wore on, and due to the influence of MTV, artists who were staples of the Contemporary Hit Radio format, such as Richard Marx, Michael Jackson, Bonnie Tyler, George Michael, Phil Collins, and Laura Branigan began crossing over to the AC charts with greater frequency. Collins has been described by AllMusic as "one of the most successful pop and adult contemporary singers of the '80s and beyond". However, with the combination of MTV and AC radio, adult contemporary appeared harder to define as a genre, with established soft-rock artists of the past still charting pop hits and receiving airplay alongside mainstream radio fare from newer artists at the time.

Question: Along with Richard Marx, Bonnie Tyler, George Michael, Phil Collins, and Laura Branigan, what artist was also frequently played on Contemporary Hit Radio stations?

Question: What television station was responsible for the increasing success of Contemporary Hit Radio artists on the AC charts?

Question: Along with Barbra Streisand, the Carpenters, Dionne Warwick, Barry Manilow and Olivia Newton-John, what adult contemporary staple found it more difficult to score chart hits in the 1980s?

Question: Who did Allmusic refer to as "one of the most successful pop and adult contemporary singers of the '80s and beyond"?