Word: cbs
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...comprehensive multimedia news service on MSNBC, nine television stations and more than 10 cable channels. Disney owns ABC network news, 21 ABC radio stations, 18 television stations, five motion picture studios, two publishing houses, eight cable channels, 11 newspapers and three music studios. Westing-house owns CBS network news, three cable channels, 39 radio stations and 14 television stations...
...improved quality of life that it cannot have while being daily inundated with the absurd "infotainment" thrust into its citizens' homes. Children grow up literally addicted to television and to the self-debasing consumerism fostered by the media trusts. Our future is threatened as much by NBC, ABC, CBS and CNN as it is by MTV, itself the child of media giant Viacom...
...Stephen Chao, who had helped develop Cops and America's Most Wanted; he was fired after three months when he hired a male stripper to help illustrate his talk on censorship at a conference organized by Murdoch. A number of top executives--among them ex-CBS News president Van Gordon Sauter and longtime CBS News executive Joseph Peyronnin--came and went after that, and plans changed just as often. An evening newscast was being considered, then it wasn't. A prime-time magazine show, Front Page, went on the air, then was canceled. A late-night news show...
News, which typically appeals to an older audience, never fit in with Fox's efforts to attract a young crowd with shows like The Simpsons and Melrose Place. "When I was there," says David Corvo, yet another ex-CBS executive who spent some time at Fox, "my strong feeling was that virtually nobody in the company except Murdoch was interested in supporting the development of a news division beyond what was needed to service affiliate newscasts...
...broadcast journalists the legend of Edward R. Murrow and his colleagues who covered World War II for CBS has cast its shadow for more than half a century, and for good reason. Remarkably gifted, remarkably courageous, remarkably ambitious, remarkably young--Murrow was 29 when he was sent to Europe by CBS--this "band of brothers," as Murrow and his group referred to themselves, brought the most dramatic story of the 20th century home to millions of America's radio listeners, and literally created broadcast news in the process...