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Article: She has a clear picture of new sports network.(PEOPLE)(Naomi Travers, Carolinas Sports Entertainment Television)(Biography)
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- Business North Carolina
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- May 1, 2005
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Naomi Travers will tell you she's a daddy's girl. As an only child, she spent a lot of time with both parents. But she gets her analytical bent from her father, who was a weapons specialist in the U.S. Secret Service in Washington, D.C. He's the one who imbued her with a passion for jazz, reading and sports. "I spent a lot of time sitting next to him watching ice skating and boxing. We went to a lot of college basketball games."
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But logging time as a couch potato doesn't necessarily prepare anyone to start or run a sports television network. Nor, for that matter, do writing rules for the Federal Communications Commission and ...