Word: metromedia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...watch Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman usually stay tuned to KTTV's MetroNews, MetroNews. Their loyalty is understandable; most of what they will see and hear could have come straight from Mary. Instead of repeating the substantive news stories other stations serve up at 11 p.m., Los Angeles' Metromedia affiliate courts its carryover MH2 audience with an 11:30 extravaganza it forthrightly calls "news for people who don't like news...
Frost offered $500,000 several months ago, approaching Nixon through his former communications chief Herb Klein, now an executive at Metromedia in Los Angeles. When Lazar insisted on more, Frost raised his offer. The deal was assured when NBC, the one network in the running, failed to match Frost's bid. Then Frost, Nixon and their lawyers huddled at San Clemente for 51/2 hours and emerged with a signed, 13-page contract stipulating that Nixon be available for 20 hour-long taping sessions that will be edited into four TV shows, each probably 90 minutes long, with a fifth...
...April, a move that will save $100,000 a year in paper costs. Newspaper Guild employees at the Washington Star-News voted to go on a four-day week, at four days' pay, in order to avoid the elimination of 100 jobs. WTTG-TV, Washington's Metromedia outlet, cut its budget by $500,000 this year and laid off a reporter and a weather forecaster. At Hugh Hefner's Playboy Enterprises, six of Out magazine's 35 editorial employees received notice two weeks ago; the company has a freeze on hiring and raises, and Hef himself...
...close personal friend of Nixon's and a longtime political adviser, Herbert Klein, 56, was for years editor of the San Diego Union, and is now a vice president of the Metromedia broadcasting group in Los Angeles. He served as White House Director of Communications from 1969 to June 1973. Nixon bluntly declared himself unimpressed with Klein's abilities in that...
...over more than 14% of the stock of the Columbia Broadcasting System and 4.5% of the stock of RCA, the parent of the National Broadcasting Co.; Bankers Trust Co. voted more than 10% of the stock of the American Broadcasting Co. and just under 10% of the stock of Metromedia. Banks have been so deeply into broadcasting that in 1972 the FCC had to liberalize its rules to increase, from 1% to 5%, their maximum legal share of ownership of more than one major broadcasting company. Otherwise, the banks would have had to sell $976 million in the stock...