Word: program
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ridiculous charge, she thought. Why couldn't everyone realize that Vili had come on to her for months? But Dave and his wife Susan were friends from the neighborhood, good people who assured her that Dave had obtained a good deal--a few months in jail, then a treatment program for "sex offenders." Another annoying term, Mary thought. She was still imagining a life with all five of her kids together as a family. She and Steve would divorce, but perhaps she and Vili--a sensitive, dreamy soul who had, to her surprise, become the love of her life--could...
...network news chiefs insist nothing so drastic is being contemplated just yet. Though pummeled by competition from cable, local news and the Internet, the evening-news programs still have an important function. They are the flagship broadcasts for the network news divisions, they showcase well-paid and highly respected news stars, and they still make money. Though their ratings have dropped steadily, the decline has been less steep than the slippage in network viewership overall. In the latest Nielsen ratings, ABC's World News Tonight (ranking second behind NBC's Nightly News) was watched by 7.5% of the nation...
...News executives are mulling a radical overhaul of their two successful magazine shows, merging PrimeTime Live and 20/20 into one program (most likely called 20/20) and expanding it to four or even five nights next season. The revised show may also include at least a few minutes of the day's news at the top of the hour. "It's one of the most important decisions ABC has confronted in recent years," says News president David Westin, "or will confront for some time to come...
...meanwhile, Dateline, the uncannily successful magazine show anchored by Jane Pauley and Stone Phillips, keeps spreading like kudzu into new prime-time real estate. The program began in 1992 and is now seen four times a week. Next fall it will probably expand to five, and West Coast president Don Ohlmeyer acknowledges that his ultimate goal is a full slate of Dateline, seven nights a week...
...nearly every night of the week (usually at 10 p.m., 9 p.m. in the middle of the country), which could combine an evening-news-style wrap-up of the day's events with the kind of feature segments and investigative pieces that currently fill the magazine shows. Such a program could even--somewhere down the road, when the Rathers and Brokaws and Jenningses have passed from the scene--replace the traditional evening newscast altogether...