Word: cbs
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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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...
...line up a TV backer for his recent Middle East trip, he was turned down by all three major networks and several other news organizations (including Warner Bros. TV), before the magazine show Inside Edition ponied up $125,000. The interview was something of a bust, partly because CBS's Dan Rather got to Saddam first and partly, according to Inside Edition producers, because the sharpest exchanges were deleted by Iraqi officials...
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...
...benign picture of the financial wizard whose acumen, and sometimes shady practices, powered the 1980s takeover wars. While Milken earned more than $1 billion as the guru of the now defunct Wall Street firm Drexel Burnham Lambert, friends argued that accumulating vast wealth was never his main goal. Wrote CBS president Laurence Tisch, who said he has known Milken for almost 20 years: "I have rarely dealt with a more dedicated and faithful professional or one more sensitive to the needs and goals of his clients or more mindful of the needs of society at large...