Word: cbs
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
House Speaker Newt Gingrich is asking national television networks to give him a half hour of free air time for an April 7 speech to outlinehis post-"Contract" agenda. While CNN quickly said yes today, NBC, ABC and CBS have yet to respond to Gingrich's request for a prerogative traditionally reserved for presidents. "It's certainly symptomatic of his asserting himself as a national personality above and beyond the status most speakers have had," saysTIME Washington contributor Laurence Barrett, who noted that the air time could help Gingrich improve his image. The latest TIME poll shows Gingrich's "negatives...
...tickets to the game against Tennessee were scalped for as much as $100. The women's version of the Final Four, to take place in Minneapolis on April 1 and 2, has been sold out for months, and March Maidness is such that ESPN, the Prime Network and CBS are all scheduled to cover the various stages of the 64-team National Collegiate Athletic Association tournament that began last Thursday. Total attendance for women's college hoops has almost tripled since 1984, growing from 1.3 million to a record 3.6 million...
Schwartz remembers CBS chairman William Paley turning pale as Schwartz called Gilligan's Island a "social microcosm" when he pitched the idea for the show. Schwartz still calls it that. "I knew that by assembling seven different people and forcing them to live together, the show would have great philosophical implications," he says. "On a much larger scale this happens all the time. Eventually, the Israelis are going to have to learn to live with the Arabs. We have one world, and Gilligan's Island was my way of saying that." Gilligan and the Skipper as Arafat and Rabin...
...CBS TELEVISION Another poke in the Eye-its prez departs for greener pastures
...Veteran CBS reporter and "60 Minutes" co-anchor Mike Wallace will receive the Goldsmith Career Award for Excellence in Journalism next month at the John F. Kennedy School of Government...