Word: cbs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hitters like Dr. Lee Salk and Dr. Joyce Brothers were enlisted to advise parents on what to tell the kids. The radio and TV airwaves were suddenly alive with Pee-wee jokes (His favorite baseball team? The Montreal Expos. His next television project? A remake of Diff'rent Strokes). CBS yanked the five remaining repeat episodes of Pee-wee's Playhouse, and the Disney-MGM Studios pulled a two- minute clip including Pee-wee that was being shown during backstage tours of its theme park in Orlando...
...everyone is happy about his execution. Peggy Charren, founder and president of Action for Children's Television in Cambridge, Mass., says the issue has been overblown in the press and criticizes CBS's rush to judgment: "It begins to smack of McCarthyism, where people were being pulled off the air before they were convicted of anything." Perhaps the real crime, the one , for which Reubens has been so relentlessly pilloried, was the successful pretense of childishness. The kids always knew he was playing, but, evidently, not many adults did. Ordinary show-business thugs and malefactors can get away with...
...grim day for CBS chief executive Laurence Tisch. News writers were on strike against his network; employees were up in arms over another round of layoffs; criticism in the press was mounting. Now, on this March morning in 1987, Tisch opened his New York Times to see an op-ed piece signed by none other than Dan Rather, bitterly attacking the Tisch-instigated news cutbacks. The Washington Post offered yet another litany of complaints from news staffers about the cost cutting...
...Unbelievable!" Tisch moaned on reading one charge, tossing his newspaper against the flowers that adorned his private dining table. To reports that some CBS News stars had offered to take salary cuts in order to save jobs, Tisch scoffed, "These are the biggest bunch of liars I've ever seen in my life!" His son Jimmy came into the office to commiserate. "Calm down, Dad," he pleaded...
...gave on the night of the sixth game of the Mets-Red Sox World Series. (General Electric chairman Jack Welch, a rabid Red Sox fan, wanted to watch the game.) Why did Dan Rather walk off the set in September 1987, leaving six minutes of dead airtime on the CBS Evening News? Auletta's second-by-second account is more sympathetic to Rather than many others. There are fresh nuggets as well. ABC anchorman Peter Jennings, before signing a new contract in late 1987, was weighing an offer from CBS to become Rather's co- anchor. NBC president Robert Wright...