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...hits, along with syndicated sensations like Wheel of Fortune, gross close to $6 billion a year worldwide. That huge market has long been the virtually exclusive preserve not of the networks but of the Hollywood studios that create the shows. The Federal Communications Commission decreed in 1970 that ABC, CBS and NBC, then the largest buyers of programs by far, could not also be major sellers. But more recently, facing profit-sapping competition from cable TV and independent stations, the Big Three lobbied the FCC to change the rules. Last week the FCC gave the networks a piece...
Appearing on ABC's "Nightline" Wednesday night, Gartner twice mentioned the victim's last name. ABC's policy is not to identify rape victims, said spokesperson Laura Wessner, but the network does not censor the views of those who appear on its live news shows...
When the President's photographer David Valdez recounted the incident on ABC's Good Morning America, TIME's graphics director Nigel Holmes had reason to be pleased. Early in the war a commercial map company had proposed to TIME and other publications that they purchase reprint rights to the firm's maps of the area. Managing editor Henry Muller preferred to rely on our in-house team led by Holmes, whose wizardry with graphics has graced the pages of TIME since he came to the magazine in 1978 from London...
Last month he returned from a torturous assignment in the Persian Gulf for ABC Radio News. After weeks of dodging Scuds and eating bad hotel food -- not to mention going without a sip of his favorite fuel, Dewar's White Label Scotch -- he parachuted into Kuwait as an eyewitness to war's inferno and freedom's jubilation. He watched wide-eyed Kuwaiti women flirt with their liberators. He saw Marines reclaim the U.S. embassy. And he surveyed the surreal traffic jam of bombed vehicles on the highway to Basra. "It was nightmarish," he says, "partly because it was so perfectly...
...dithering annoyed many of Japan's friends. "No one expected Japan to send combat troops," said a senior British diplomat in London. "But they abysmally failed to grasp helpful alternatives." In the U.S., an ABC News/ Washington Post poll showed that 30% of Americans lost respect for Japan during the gulf crisis. In this case, admits a Japanese diplomat, "we projected the image of someone who sat back on the sofa without undertaking the duties expected of an important nation...