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August 11, 2000

Stanford Officials Overrule Plans for Virtual Ads at Basketball Games

Stanford University's top administrators say they will intervene to stop the athletics department's latest corporate-advertising deal, which called for virtual ads to be electronically inserted into televised broadcasts of Stanford basketball games.

The announcement came hours after The Chronicle reported, in an online article, that Stanford had signed the first collegiate deal with Princeton Video Image Inc., a New Jersey company whose sophisticated video

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