Word: cbs
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...been nothing like it in jazz, before or since," says Gunther Schuller, the multifaceted composer, conductor and musicologist who edited the score, which was discovered among Mingus' papers after his death. Schuller directed a proper world premiere of the work at New York City's Lincoln Center last year. (CBS has issued a recording of the performance.) He was at the podium last week for another Manhattan performance, which was to be reprised a few days later at Tanglewood and at the Chicago jazz festival. Sue Mingus, the composer's widow and flame keeper, is trying to schedule performances...
...there were problems he couldn't fix. The CBS Evening News has tumbled in the ratings from first place into a battle with NBC to stay out of last. CBS This Morning floundered at No. 3 despite Burke's decision, in a move that took his corporate overseers by surprise, to replace Kathleen Sullivan with Paula Zahn. High expectations for a new prime-time show, Face to Face with Connie Chung, were dashed when Chung decided to cut back on her workload in an effort to conceive a child, forcing CBS to pull the show from its fall schedule...
Burke alienated many at CBS News with his aloof management style. He also drew a barrage of in-house criticism last January for his suspension of Andy Rooney after the 60 Minutes commentator made remarks that were offensive to blacks and gays. Burke was forced to reinstate Rooney after just three weeks, a turnabout that was seen as a blow to his autonomy...
...Rather & Co.'s $1 million-a-week road show in the Persian Gulf. Despite some scoops (including the first videotaped interview with U.S. hostages in Baghdad), Rather was upstaged by ABC's Ted Koppel, who beat him into Iraq. Nor has Rather's globe- trotting improved the ratings: the CBS Evening News has been No. 3 for the past three weeks. Broadcast-group president Howard Stringer insisted that the costly Iraq coverage was not a factor in Burke's ouster. "I have not had a | single discussion with the news division about the cost of the Iraq coverage," he said...
VIDEO: Embattled CBS News gets another new chief...