Word: cbs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...many years ago -- or was it only months? -- the traditional broadcast networks were relegated to the endangered-species list. Viewers were drifting to cable; industry seers were predicting a future of countless channels and "video on demand"; and ABC, CBS and NBC were fighting to remain relevant. Now it seems everybody wants to get into the network act. Warner's new WB Television Network, which premieres with a weekly two-hour block of sitcoms this Wednesday night, is one of two aspiring "fifth networks" making their debut this month. Next week the United Paramount Network -- a joint | venture by Paramount...
...advertising market and a healthy profit picture (the three networks combined made roughly $600 million last year, an increase of 30% from 1993, according to Broadcasting & Cable Magazine), have turned the networks into hot properties on Wall Street. At least two of the Big Three, NBC and CBS, have had serious discussions with potential corporate buyers in the past year, and many analysts expect at least one of them to be sold or to acquire a new corporate partner before...
...rules have been relaxed in stages over the past few years, the networks have increasingly moved into becoming producers as well as distributors of their programming. A growing number of prime-time shows, such as CBS's Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman and ABC's Me and the Boys, are produced by the networks' in-house production units. The networks, meanwhile, are negotiating for an ownership share of more shows produced by outside companies. In one sense, these new arrangements are righting what has always been a skewed system of network economics. Typically, the network pays an outside company a license...
...Madison Avenue media-buying firm. "Right now the networks have an exclusive in certain time periods, but there's no reason why that couldn't open up. It's possible that we could move to the point where stations will take five hours from ABC and four hours from CBS and 10 hours from Warner...
Women of the House, the couple's new sitcom that debuts this week on CBS, stars Delta Burke as Suzanne Sugarbaker, the character she played on Designing Women. Suzanne has come to Washington to take over the congressional seat of her late husband. The show aims to update Mr. Smith Goes to Washington: the heroine is a naive ex-beauty queen from Georgia who doesn't know the difference between columnist William Safire and Sapphire, her maid, yet in her plainspoken way possesses more wisdom than the capital's sophisticates...