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...conjectures that a U.S. invasion may be in the works. Other warning signs of a confrontation proliferate, says TIME correspondent Edward Barnes. The French government is evacuating its dependents. The U.S. Marines have begun military exercises off Cuba's Guantanamo, about 100 miles from Haiti's coast. ABC News reports that U.N. documents quote Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott as saying the U.S. will not wait beyond the end of July before using force. In Haiti the government has responded with attacks by thugs on U.N. observer teams, beating up several officials...
...from a UHF station (one of those occupying the channel numbers above 13, which historically have had weaker signals and lower viewership) to a stronger VHF outlet (2 through 13 on the dial). It was the boldest move yet in Fox's seven- year effort to achieve parity with ABC...
...them. The options aren't very appealing. In each market, CBS could simply team up with the newly discarded Fox station. But that would mean being relegated to a UHF channel, a humiliating comedown for the No. 1-rated network. Or CBS could try to wrest away a current ABC or NBC affiliate. But that would probably trigger a bidding war that could wind up costing the network plenty...
...switches affect only 8% of the network's audience and predicted that the ratings loss would amount to no more than two-tenths of a Nielsen point. (CBS was No. 1 in the Nielsens for the 1993-94 season with a 14.0 rating, 1.6 points higher than No. 2 ABC and 6.8 points better than...
...WEEKLY, E! Entertainment Television era -- occur every November, February and May. These are the months when TV stations receive ratings that will allow them to fix their advertising rates for the coming months, prompting the networks to trundle out their most lurid and spectacular offerings. This May, for instance, ABC has scored with an apocalyptic four- part mini-series based on Stephen King's The Stand; CBS is airing a TV movie with the can't-miss title Menendez; Fox inexplicably wasted its own Menendez movie on the nonsweeps month of April, but has countered with episodes of some...