Word: cbs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Tuesday, however. Marian Wright Edelman, mentor of Hillary, then and now director of the Children's Defense Fund, was named in 1974. So was Dan Rather, coming off an excellent season of confrontational Watergate-related press conferences with President Nixon; Rather replaced Walter Cronkite as the anchor for the CBS Evening News in 1981 and has remained in the job, solo or accompanied, ever since. Another television journalist, Barbara Walters, then 43, also made the 1974 list. TIME called her "TV's first lady of talk," and if she has ceded that title to Oprah Winfrey, she remains an institution...
...financial problems, Schulhof decided that with Guber's exit it was time to come clean. He urged Sony to take a substantial write-off of its Hollywood assets. (The music and television operations remain big moneymakers.) Around the same time, Schulhof recruited Jeff Sagansky, the former president of CBS's entertainment division, to be his second in command. But observers wonder what role Sagansky has been playing as a long-term strategist. "He's a mystery to everyone," says a Hollywood agent. Though he may have helped save Sony Pictures, Schulhof may be too late to save...
...Matsushita the Tokyo end of management seems in order; the trouble is between Tokyo and Hollywood. MCA's Lew Wasserman and Sidney Sheinberg -- the longest-running partnership in Hollywood -- have been heading the studio, but have openly complained that their pushes to go after CBS and to open a theme park in Tokyo were ignored. The Japanese firm is especially eager to keep the team intact since director Steven Spielberg, who made close to $1 billion for MCA with Jurassic Park, recently announced that he would stop working for the company if his mentor, Sheinberg, were to leave...
...Desilu Studios tries to sell Star Trek to CBS, which declines and decides to air Lost in Space instead...
...CBS cancels Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour; Cher divorces Greg Allman...