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...making exceptions for some Americans. During a recent session of the House Appropriations Committee, he helped beat back a proposal to cut crop subsidies to farm owners who earn more than $100,000 a year in nonfarm income, a measure known as the "Sam Donaldson Amendment,'' after the abc newsman who collected five-figure federal subsidies over the past two years to support his New Mexico sheep ranch. When asked why wealthy farmers should not help balance the budget, Nethercutt, sounding remarkably like Foley, replies that some spending programs are "just a sensible use of federal dollars...
Citing an ABC News poll stating that only 28 percent of Americans identify baseball as their favorite sport, Tye said baseball has not been so unpopular since...
...year-old Children's Television Workshop, producer of such acclaimed programs as The Electric Company, 3-2-1 Contact and Square One TV, is down to a single show in first-run production, namely Sesame Street. In February, abc canceled ctw's animated Saturday-morning science program CRO, and its pbs show Ghostwriter is on indefinite hiatus, having lost its funding. In the fiscal year that ended in June 1994, ctw lost $5.8 million, and two weeks ago it had to lay off 47 people -- 12% of its staff...
...look at their recently announced fall prime-time schedules reveals that the broadcast networks have all but abandoned the "family hour" between 8 p.m. and 9 p.m. Such kid-oriented shows as Full House have been canceled, and adult comedies like NBC's Friends, CBS's Cybill and ABC's Roseanne will now air at 8 p.m. Network programmers point out that they can no longer afford to aim prime-time shows strictly at children, since advertisers spend most of their dollars targeting the 18-to-49 age group. Says ABC television network president David Westin: "There was a time...
...preschool series Cubhouse, continue to program for younger viewers, while cbs serves six-to-10-year-olds and nbc, perhaps, young teens. Broadcasters might also differentiate their programs by subject matter. cbs, for example, airs the wonderfully wacky science show Beakman's World for older children and young teens; abc might offer a science show for younger viewers, or perhaps a reading or news program. If broadcasters could discuss scheduling and avoid concurrent airtimes, children would be able to watch all the quality programs made just for them, providing children with a brighter palette of weekly programming and giving broadcasters...