OSCARS, TITANIC, DICAPRIO ARE BIG NEWS

The 70th Annual Academy Awards was the most covered event during March on TV news magazine shows, generating 198 segments, according to the latest NewsTV Reports Study. Titanic alone generated 145 segments, ranking second. Leonard DiCaprio was the topic of 80 spots, putting him in fourth place (just behind President Clinton, in third).

OSCARS BOOST TITANIC ALBUM SALES

With the theme from Titanic burned into everyone's consciousness after repeat playings at last week's Oscars, sales of the movie's soundtrack album surged to 476,000, bringing its domestic total to 6.6 million and its worldwide total to more than 20 million. The album has topped the Billboard album chart for the past 12 weeks.

-- Dan Draghici (ddraghic@sprint.ca), April 02, 1998

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Response to Oscars, Titanic, DiCaprio, Album

DiCaprio fourth behind Clinton!!! Sheesh. Imagine what it would have been if the lad had been available for interviews and stuff.

-- crystal smithwick (crystal@9v.com), April 02, 1998.

I'm *still* surprised at the world-wide success of Titanic; I was expecting it to be big...but not this big.

Yes, even James Cameron was humbled by it all. ; )

-- Thomas M. Terashima (titanicShack@yahoo.com), April 03, 1998.