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Still, new ABC Entertainment President Brandon Stoddard insists that the network will not cut corners in trying to reconstruct a winning prime-time schedule. "We've got to protect what goes on screen," says Stoddard, 49, who was named programming chief last November after running ABC's mini-series and theatrical-films operations, "because what goes on the screen will make us succeed or fail." The network has ordered 27 pilots for potential fall series, more than either of its two rivals. Lucille Ball will star in a new sitcom, and other prospective series include a sci-fi drama based...
...Congress believed that the proper response to a full-fledged Soviet antiballistic-missile network was for the U.S. to deploy its own countrywide ABM system. The Army had been working on such systems since the late 1950s, first the Nike-Zeus and later the Nike-X. In 1966, therefore, the Congress authorized and appropriated $167.9 million for production of a Nike system (when fully deployed, the weapons would probably have cost a total of $30 billion). President Johnson and I believed the system would provide little if any protection either to our population or our weapons. We refused to spend...
...program based in Clearwater, Fla. Started in 1982 by two local businessmen, Roy Speer and Lowell Paxson, the program was originally seen in just 125,000 homes in Florida. After going national in July 1985, the show now reaches more than 10 million cable households over the Home Shopping Network. A rotating crew of 24 hosts with such names as Budget Bob Circosta and Bubblin' Bobbi Ray dangle and demonstrate products, while operators on 400 toll-free lines plug the orders into video-display terminals...
...quick acceptance by offering low-priced (average item: $33), reliable products culled from closeouts and liquidations. The network heavily pushes such items as porcelain music boxes and imitation diamonds called cubic zirconia. But Home Shopping has started a second channel, HSN 2, which offers trendier, more expensive products, probably because that is the lucrative direction its rivals are taking...
...slick new cable service, TelShop, a joint venture of Financial News Network and Comp-U-Card International, expects to lure bigger spenders with such attractions as videocassette recorders, vacation packages and exercise bicycles. Another upscale contender, Shop Television Network, which will officially hit the airwaves next week, hopes to stand out from competitors by featuring a celebrity host, Singer Pat Boone, and guest experts like Figure Skater Scott Hamilton...