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Last July, ABC, CBS, and NBC rejected a public-service message provided by the American College of Obstericians and Gynecologists. The topic of the 30-second spot? Family planning and--dare we say it--contraceptives...
...merge his TV stations into a video conglomerate to be called Fox Inc. The company will have three divisions: the 20th Century-Fox film studio, a Fox station group comprising Murdoch's own six outlets and a Fox television network to sell programming to independent operators not affiliated with ABC, CBS or NBC. To clinch the deal Murdoch still needs approval from the Federal Communications Commission for his purchase of the TV stations. The agency's vote, scheduled for last week, was postponed because of protests from public interest groups that have asked questions about Murdoch's financial condition...
20th Century-Fox Chairman Barry Diller, Murdoch's man on the spot in Hollywood, readily admits that it is "a bit grand" to believe that the new Fox Inc. in the next few years could assemble a network comparable to ABC, CBS and NBC. Instead Fox intends to form a loose confederation and build the business gradually, first offering perhaps an hour of programming per night. Says one Fox executive: "When you get to the point of selling a few nights of programming a few years down the road, you're looking very much like a network." Concurs FCC Commissioner...
Cable executives insist that their series are different from network fare, in many cases more daring in language and subject matter. Usually that simply means a gratuitous glimpse of skin here, an expletive undeleted there. Brothers' treatment of homosexuality, for example, is a touch more explicit than ABC or CBS might allow. Yet in most ways the show is indistinguishable from a typical Norman Lear sitcom of the mid-1970s...
...Halloween. The goblins of the White House press corps swarmed around, wanting to know how the Soviets felt about going to interview Ronald Reagan. ABC's Sam Donaldson shouted, "Are you going to ask him about 'the evil empire'?" The visitors, looking apprehensive, smiled determinedly, declined to answer and trudged through the horde...