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Thursday's decision, though short of a complete exoneration, nonetheless seems certain to free Murdoch to re-energize his drive to build Fox into an equal of the NBC, CBS and ABC networks. The investigation slowed his progress, coming on the heels of two bold deals that sharply altered the competitive landscape. His successful pre-emptive bid in late 1993 to acquire rights to broadcast National Football League games, and his $500 million investment last year in New World Communications, which brought to Fox a stable of powerful new affiliates, changed the strategic balance among the networks...
...June 1, 1993, Dan Rather and Connie Chung co-anchored the CBS Evening News for the first time, and the dust has never settled. Unfortunately for CBS, their ratings have: in third place among the U.S. networks, behind ABC's World News Tonight and the NBC Nightly News. But then, the news that Dan and Connie make is sometimes more interesting than the news they read...
...Howard Cosell. For a generation, his nasal drone-abrasive, unmistakable, too easily imitated by bad comedians-was the premiere guide to the nation's professional playing fields. Though he entered sportscasting in 1953 through the unglamorous venue of Little League baseball, by the '60s Cosell was a fixture at abc Sports, gaining a measure of attention because of his controversial support for Muhammad Ali when the boxer was stripped of his title for resisting the Vietnam draft. Cosell reached the peak of his influence with the Monday Night Football broadcasts of the '70s; his self-promoted willingness to "tell...
Alice Pifer, 43, a producer for ABC News and the TV program "20/20," said yesterday she plans to study issues such as technology and politics...
According to some impressionable reviewers, David Caruso, late of NYPD Blue, made the right decision when he quit the hit abc show to play leads in the movies. He is, they say, an authentic star. Yeah, right...