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...single citizen of the global village OD'd on O.J.? Apparently not. Every day for two weeks everybody was talking, everybody was watching. Last Friday, when the pretrial hearing reached its grisly climax, was Day 26 of America Held Hostage by its own lust for sensation. On ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX, CNN, ESPN2 and especially COURT TV (the all-O.J. channel), the talkathon played six or more hours a day. Afternoon ratings soared 24% above their usual levels; prime-time specials were available for the law- impaired and the jurisimprudent. If you still couldn't get enough, you must...
...were clouded by fiascos in the conference rooms. Losing the affiliates to Fox was only part of it. The Eye web had fumbled its rights to N.F.L. games, a CBS staple since 1956, and allowed Fox to pick them up. CBS also looked inept when, unlike abc, nbc and Fox, it did not demand that cable systems commit to accept some jerry-built CBS cable channel in return for retransmission rights to the network's programming. "CBS could have gotten a cable channel for almost nothing," says the TV-industry executive. "They would just have to have invested some start...
...Beverly Hills builder, Diller joined abc in 1966. This was a young man in a hurry. Diller was soon developing two important formats: the mini-series (QB VII) and the made-for-TV movie (such as Duel, Steven Spielberg's debut feature). In 1974 he moved to Paramount, where he, Michael Eisner, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Frank Mancuso and some other sharp people spurred a renaissance of the studio, with such hits as Saturday Night Fever, Grease, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Flashdance and Terms of Endearment...
...fact, the public displays little sign of giving Clinton credit for much of anything. Quite the opposite: the latest Washington Post-ABC News poll shows 53% of respondents disapproving of his performance as President, the worst figure in his 18-month tenure. Even among those who still do support Clinton, only about a third describe themselves as strong fans; the rest are only lukewarm -- a worrisome new development. White House officials give two reasons: the bogging down of the legislative program, which has convinced many voters that Clinton is not the gridlock breaker he advertised himself to be, and -- surprisingly...
...Clinton Administration said it would invade Haiti if the military rulers don't "step down" by the end of the year. "We don't expect the military regime to be there six months from now," U.S. Haiti adviser Bill Gray said. At one point in an interview with ABC News, Gray upped the ante: "The coup leaders will not be allowed to stay in power." In the meantime, the U.S. Embassy in Port-au-Prince bought radio air time on local stations to broadcast messages in local Creole warning fleeing Haitians: "If you take a new boat, one thing...