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Though in its infancy, virtual reality has attracted an extraordinary amount of media attention. The technology has been featured on ABC News and Entertainment Tonight and in front-page stories in more than two dozen newspapers. Mattel has managed to sell some 600,000 copies of its Power Glove, a crude $90 variant on the DataGlove that is designed for use with a Nintendo video-game player, despite the existence of only a handful of games to go with the glove. Virtual reality has even worked its way into the plot line of a feature film. In the forthcoming...
Burke, who had been an aide to Senator Edward Kennedy and the right hand to Roone Arledge at ABC News, was respected by CBS colleagues for his intelligence and integrity, and for fighting to boost CBS News' presence in prime time with new shows like 48 Hours. "I think he did an extremely good job there," says Arledge. "A lot of the problems he inherited he did a great job of fixing...
...costs. The timing of his resignation led some to speculate that the network chiefs were unhappy about Rather & Co.'s $1 million-a-week road show in the Persian Gulf. Despite some scoops (including the first videotaped interview with U.S. hostages in Baghdad), Rather was upstaged by ABC's Ted Koppel, who beat him into Iraq. Nor has Rather's globe- trotting improved the ratings: the CBS Evening News has been No. 3 for the past three weeks. Broadcast-group president Howard Stringer insisted that the costly Iraq coverage was not a factor in Burke's ouster. "I have...
...constituted a virtual Who's Who of women in broadcasting, including Cassie Mackin, Linda Ellerbee and Betty Rollin. "I assumed I was there as a courtesy," says Pauley. Improbably, she won the job. "I was very impressed with her poise," says former NBC News president Richard Wald, now at ABC. "Jane looks like somebody you would meet in your neighborhood but who is just a little smarter and more articulate, so that you look...
Thompson soon learned the economic consequences of his statement. Within days, Fortune 500 sponsors started pulling out of the ABC broadcast of the Professional Golfers' Association tournament scheduled to be held at Shoal Creek. Assuming that this was a legitimate gripe, the corporate response was encouragingly quick, and straight from the wallet--as it should have been...