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In the film, Yankovic plays George Newman, a "daydreaming loser" (to quote IMDB's plot summary), whose uncle wins a faltering UHF television station (channel 62) in a poker game and puts George in charge. The station struggles, and one night George works late and forgets the birthday date he set up with his girlfriend Teri (Jackson). She dumps him, and in his resulting depression he leaves work during the middle of the day to go to a bar, leaving the weird but charismatic janitor (Richards) in charge of the children's show currently in progress. The show becomes a hit among both children and adults, and the station is suddenly the most successful station in town. The owner (McCarthy) of a rival VHF station, channel 8, a network affiliate, is furious at being beaten by a UHF station and schemes to gain control of channel 62, which he intends to turn into a parking lot. He plans to purchase the station from George's uncle, whose gambling has left him with a substantial debt that needs to be repaid quickly. Thanks to a telethonA telethon is a portmanteau of the words television and marathon. The term refers to a lengthy television program, lasting many hours or even days, the purpose of which is to raise money for a charitable, political, or other allegedly worthy cause. The fo, George is able to come up with the money his uncle needs, and the station becomes a publicly owned companyA publicly traded corporation often refers to a company whose shares are traded on the open market, such as a stock market. A non-publicly traded corporation, known as a privately-held company, can issue shares and raise capital through an initial public, while channel 8 loses its broadcasting license. George and Teri get back together.

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Although unsuccessful theatrically (released in 1989 as Orion Pictures' likely summer blockbuster, it was obliterated in the theaters by Die HardDie Hard is an action film released in 1988. Starring Bruce Willis and Alan Rickman, and directed by John McTiernan, this film was a smash success that started a subgenre of films unofficially nicknamed "Die Hard in a. where a solitary hero fights a deadl and BatmanBatman was released in U. theaters on June 23, 1989 by Warner Bros. and soon became the highest grossing movie of the year. It was directed by Tim Burton and starred Jack Nicholson as a rather psychotic Joker, Michael Keaton as Batman, and Kim Basinger as), UHF has become very popular on home video, with out-of-print video cassettes selling on eBayeBay is a very successful online auction website, at which people from all around the world buy and sell goods and services. About eBay was founded in 1995 by Pierre Omidyar as "AuctionWeb", part of a larger personal site that included, among other things for sizable amounts of money. It was rereleased on DVD in 2002 by MGM, to the joy of its fans. The film was directed by Jay Levey , who co-wrote the screenplay with Yankovic. It was originally produced by Orion Pictures Corporation, which was acquired by MGM in 1997.