Word: networker
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...losses for dozens of U.S. companies. NBC, for example, has paid the Soviets $87 million for the television rights and plans to broadcast more than 150 hours of the Games this summer. If the U.S. withdraws, NBC has decided not to cover the Games at all. Though the network would recover almost all of the fee from its insurance company, it would lose expected advertising revenues, as well as its best chance of getting out of last place in the network ratings...
...reaction of the oil companies to gasohol remains mixed. Exxon has refused to let its credit card be used to buy gasohol. Texaco, by contrast, is expanding its network of gasohol pumps, from 600 to 1,100 this spring, and is studying a joint project with CPC International, the former Corn Products Refining Company, to make ethanol. The largest manufacturer of the additive, Archer Daniels Midland, has increased annual output at its Decatur, Ill., plant from 5 million to 55 million gal. in less than two years...
...competitors, RCA and Magnavox, are battling for the new market and for partners to adopt their totally different technologies. Last week RCA, the parent of NBC, signed a major deal with its TV network rival, CBS. It was one of the rare times that the two giant entertainment and electronic companies have cooperated in an important...
...Game Is On: ABC took long odds by introducing sport to prime time in 1970 with Monday Night Football. Since then just about everything except golf has been played at night, doubling in a decade, to nearly 1,400 hours in 1979, the amount of sport on network TV and giving the fans World Series games played in arctic conditions and, of course, Thursday Night Football...
...Downstairs; Elizabeth R; The Six Wives of Henry VIII; Civilisation; I, Claudius; The Pallisers; The Duchess of Duke Street; Monty Python's Flying Circus. The Horatio Alger Award: To ABC, the little engine that could, for puffing its way into the Nielsen station and becoming the top-rated network in 1976, after a lifetime in last place. Most Watched Show: Roots, which not only broke all records of the '70s, but was also the most popular TV entertainment in history...