Word: cbs
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...nation's TV households. An average hour of ABC's prime-time schedule was seen by just 6.8%. "A significant number of Americans are watching [the nightly news]," says NBC News president Andrew Lack, "and millions would be disappointed if it weren't there." Says CBS News president Andrew Heyward: "I see prime-time news as a supplement to the evening-news program, not a substitute...
...Even at CBS, where prime-time news has had a bumpier road (48 Hours, now in its 11th season, is still plugging along, but Public Eye with Bryant Gumbel has fizzled in the ratings), programmers are toying with an alluring but risky idea: expanding the venerated 60 Minutes to a second night. The chief stumbling block is the people behind 60 Minutes, who fear diluting the show. "We think it's a terrible idea," says executive producer Don Hewitt. "[Network programmers] hope to persuade us. But they haven...
...Carol & Ted & Alice (ABC) S.W.A.T. (ABC) Soap (ABC) Tabitha (ABC) Vega$ (ABC) Gavilan (NBC) Spenser: For Hire (ABC) American Dreamer (NBC) Crossroads (ABC) It Had to Be You (CBS) The Lazarus Man Vital Signs (ABC) Love Boat: The Next Wave...
...were considered too flashy, shallow and expensive--in short, too American. Almost everything the Committee had planned, including an international gathering of distinguished Jews in Jerusalem and the shuttling of 50,000 Jewish teenagers to Israel for the summer, was cancelled or fell through. What was left was the CBS television special featuring Kevin Costner that you might have caught last week. I skipped it after seeing the Oscar-esque previews...
RETIRED. MARCUS ALLEN, 38, nimble NFL running back whose career records--123 rushing touchdowns and 587 receptions--were as peerless as his professionalism; to be a commentator for CBS; in Kansas City...