Word: jankowski
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first time in the network's history, an outsider will take over as news president: David Burke, executive vice president at ABC News. Outgoing Broadcast Group President Gene Jankowski will assume the less taxing post of broadcast chairman. Said Tisch: "This is a start...
...Rather. The anchorman was unfailingly polite and supportive in person, Joyce writes, but campaigned for his ouster behind his back. When the antagonism became clear to Joyce's bosses, there was little doubt about which man was expendable. "There are lots of presidents," CBS Broadcast Group President Gene Jankowski told Joyce. "There's only one Dan Rather...
...news. According to one network insider, Paley and Tisch ousted Sauter without conferring with the board of directors' management committee, a move that irked members of that group. Tisch issued a memo to CBS employees, however, expressing his "complete confidence" in remaining top executives, ) including, at least implicitly, Gene Jankowski, 52, Sauter's boss and president of the CBS Broadcast Group...
...back viewers, CBS needs to produce some hit programs, which have been notably rare for the network in recent years. CBS did not have a single prime-time hit last season. Profits in Jankowski's broadcast division fell by almost 12%, to $361 million...
...Jankowski is not talking about quality entertainment here. He is defining the networks' primary function: to make money, not by selling programs to viewers but by selling viewers-in bulk, watching a prime-time show-to advertisers. The ad agencies are still buying, despite skyrocketing rates ($91,000 for the average 30-sec. spot in prime time, up 125% since 1975). Says Louis Dorkin, senior vice president at the Dancer Fitzgerald agency: "The advertisers will keep paying these prices until they decide there's a better game in town...