Word: cbs
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...again engaged in widely reported talks to sell some or all of NBC, which it acquired in 1986 when it purchased RCA Corp. While NBC currently boasts such comedy hits as Frasier and Seinfeld and has been reporting improved profits this year, the network continues to run third behind CBS and ABC in daytime and prime-time ratings. Among its many blunders under GE was letting David Letterman jump to CBS last year; Letterman regularly clobbers NBC's Tonight Show with Jay Leno in the ratings and has propelled CBS's entire late-night lineup into the No. 1 position...
...clique a gang of murderers. He ticked off a catalogue of their atrocities -- "executing children, raping women, killing priests" and said the U.S. had only one message for them: "Your time is up. Leave now, or we will force you from power." Cedras replied by telling Dan Rather of CBS News, "I am ready to fight...
There is a strong chance that the worst violence will occur not between armed forces but in the streets -- and it could endanger U.S. troops even if they arrive in what Pentagon officials call a "permissive environment." Minutes before Clinton's speech on Thursday, Cedras told CBS that the landing of U.S. troops would trigger "a massacre starting with a civil war." Self- serving as his statement was, it accurately reflected just how ferocious the country's animosities have become...
Last week, if you don't already know, some of the world's most advanced communications equipment, including Dan Rather and the whole CBS, ABC, NBC, and GNN teams, were flown into the small island-state of Haiti...
...course, the old traditions are sometimes worth preserving. The two most provocative new shows of the fall revive a venerable genre that has been under-represented of late: the medical drama. CBS's Chicago Hope, created by David E. Kelley (Picket Fences), has name stars -- Mandy Patinkin, Adam Arkin, E.G. Marshall -- and provides familiar TV pleasures. It's a self-important but frequently entertaining mix of Ben Casey melodrama (should an operation be performed to separate two Siamese twins, even though both may die?) and St. Elsewhere-style modernism (the surgeons sing Midnight Train to Georgia around the operating table...