Word: abc
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...hard job then, it is all but impossible now. Two weeks ago, CBS confirmed that it was shutting down its Chicago bureau, leaving a single reporter to handle the entire region from an office at the network's local affiliate. ABC is cutting its Chicago office from eight people to two by the end of the year. Only NBC's bureau is remaining intact -- with one correspondent, down from five...
...cold winds of Chicago are spreading across the network landscape. ABC has closed its Dallas bureau, scaled back its office in Boston and reduced its presence in Central America. NBC is laying off 20 news people by the end of the year. CBS, which is making the severest cuts, has axed at least 60 members of its news staff...
...January -- a half-hour version of Real Life with Jane Pauley and the investigative series Expose -- as well as an afternoon show hosted by Faith Daniels. CBS's America Tonight has joined the late-night schedule (though it will leave the air, at least temporarily, in late January), and ABC has talked about doing all-night news...
...Self-Censorship Issue: "Where do you draw the line?" ABC's Forrest Sawyer repeatedly asked Madonna on a nationally televised Nightline appearance...
During the past few years, however, as one media giant after another merged with a powerful partner, Wasserman apparently became convinced that MCA needed to make a strategic alliance to gain King Kong-like size and access to hoards of cash. Capital Cities bought ABC, General Electric acquired NBC, Murdoch bought Fox, and Time Inc. acquired Warner Communications. As Wasserman reportedly told an MCA shareholder last year, "We're a 200-lb. gorilla in a game with 1,000-lb. gorillas. We've got to become a 1,000-lb. gorilla or get out of the game...