Word: cbs
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...abuse Warren Littlefield has. David Letterman loved to flash photos of the NBC programming chief on his show and make cruel remarks. In The Late Shift, HBO's recent movie about the late-night battle, Littlefield comes across as the arch network dunderhead, the guy who lost Letterman to CBS. In one scene, Littlefield (played as a smarmy nebbish by Bob Balaban) is so surprised by a phone call from Jay Leno that he races out of the toilet in his boxers, with his pants around his ankles...
When the annual NCAA men's basketball tournament tipped off Thursday, Harvard found itself analyzing brackets, learning more about the dribbling acumen of Austin Peay's point guard, watching CBS non-stop, and yes, even, cheering for hated Princeton in their first-round game against last year's national champion, UCLA...
...front-runner's sweep of the seven Super Tuesday states brought in 345 delegates and brings the question of Dole's running mate to the fore. Dole maintains that he has not thought about the No. 2 slot on his ticket "in any concerted way," but did tell CBS that he believed Colin Powell would "suit up again" if asked. A new Washington Post poll shows President Clinton leading Dole by 17 points, but another survey shows by adding Powell, Dole evens the odds. "If the vice presidency is presented as a responsibility to serve, than Dole has a persuasive...
...FIRST PRESIDENT TO GROW UP in the Age of Television, it was a gathering to relish. Thirty top TV executives--honchos from ABC, CBS and NBC, as well as major cable networks and Hollywood studios--stopped by the White House last Thursday for a meeting. To be sure, it was a command performance (Bill Clinton had proposed the summit in his State-of-the-Union address), and the subject matter was not one the invitees would have picked: sex and violence. But at least everyone was talking the same language. When Viacom's Jonathan Dolgen warned that putting ratings...
...profile result of weeks of tricky behind-the-scenes negotiations. A key meeting, TIME has learned, occurred two weeks ago at Al Gore's vice-presidential residence. The private dinner was attended by top executives from the Big Three networks--ABC's Robert Iger, NBC's Robert Wright and CBS's Peter Lund--along with Jack Valenti, the head of the Motion Picture Association of America, which administers the ratings for movies. The session was intended to get industry negotiations back on track after Murdoch had pre-empted the other networks by announcing that Fox would develop a ratings system...