Word: cbs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...CBS, starting Oct. 4, 8 p.m. EDT). For baseball fans, it's all CBS from now on. Jack Buck and Dick Stockton will handle the play-by-play for the network's first postseason coverage in 40 years...
...largest maker of consumer electronics, is negotiating to buy MCA, the American show-business giant, in a deal that could be worth more than $7 billion. The acquisition would represent an even more titanic version of the hardware-meets-software combination pioneered by Matsushita's rival Sony, which bought CBS Records for $2 billion in 1988 and Columbia Pictures for $3.4 billion...
...spring of 1948, the body of CBS correspondent George Polk washed up in Salonika bay, his hands and feet bound with rope, a bullet hole in the back of his head. The Greek pathologist who conducted the autopsy on the 34-year- old journalist found 3 lbs. of undigested lobster in his stomach...
...Like his CBS boss Edward R. Murrow, Polk is a model for the American journalist as brooding idealist. Not satisfied with accepting government handouts, he tried to report the Greek civil war from behind the communist lines. Such enterprise disturbed the Royalists. Either they did not understand the role of an independent press or they understood it too well...
When Dan Rather returned from the Persian Gulf, his billionaire boss invited the anchorman to a welcome-home lunch -- in the CBS cafeteria. As both men considered the "Mexican Week" choices, a mariachi band serenaded them with La Cucaracha...