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...case - extolling the behavior of Israeli soldiers, criticizing the press for its coverage of Lebanon, and issuing an anticipatory never warning to American policymakers: Israel would never tolerate a Palestinian state. Just as the program went on the air live, This Week with David Brinkley was beginning simultaneously on ABC, with the announcement that Sharon would be appearing later on its own hour-long program. That was the first Joan Barone, producer of Face the Nation, knew of the double booking. She thought she had Sharon exclusively; she feels betrayed by Sharon; she's still mad. "This has never...
...Cable may simply have been the first casualty of an underlying industry-wide problem: total advertising revenue for all of cable last year was $100 million, an anemic .16% of total U.S. advertising. None of CBS's rivals is making money, either. ARTS, the joint venture of ABC and the Hearst Corp., has lagged as much as CBS in selling ads despite 7.5 million subscribers. It says only its modest production budget has kept losses "within handleable limits." BRAVO, which offers a mixed fare including cultural shows and foreign films, charges subscribers a fee rather than relying on advertising...
...WPCQ from Cable News Network Founder Ted Turner for $20 million in 1980, Group W has battled ineffectually to push its local and national evening-news ratings above a hopelessly unprofitable 1% to 2% of metropolitan Charlotte's 236,000 TV households. By comparison, CBS-affiliated WBTV and ABC-linked WSOC-TV each draw ten times as many news viewers, albeit on VHP channels that are easier to tune in than WPCQ's UHF signal, Channel 36. WPCQ's troubles are compounded by three nearby NBC affiliates whose signals reach into the Charlotte market. Still, the station...
...enthusiasts everywhere, however, with its presentation of a Canadian Football League doubleheader featuring well-known personalities from the 11th round of the NFL college draft. And since the CFL doesn't play on Mondays (people are still wondering if the CFL really plays at all), rumor has it that ABC will instead feature back-to-back action-packed episodes of "Wild Kingdom" and "In Search...
Throw in the fact that 20-odd schools are presently on NCAA probation and that more than 30 are being investigated for alleged improprieties. Throw in that ABC and CBS television are paying the schools $263 million for the right to broadcast selected football games over the next three years. Throw in that the football and basketball programs at several major universities are more separate fiefdoms than subservient parts of entire schools. And the answer to the basic question posed recently by The New York Times--have big-time schools lost control of their sports?--seems an emphatic...