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...sponsored on radio and transfer it to network television, which was then in its infancy. With Milton Berle as host, Texaco Star Theater has been credited with inspiring millions of Americans to purchase their first television set. Now, as network TV seems to be in its dotage, executives at ABC are hoping that a new corporate sponsorship scheme will come to the rescue again...
...another source of financing for a scripted series. Enter MindShare, a media buyer that wanted to move its advertising clients inside the creative process by producing and underwriting the costs of a new show. It seemed a match made in media heaven. But there were concerns: What if ABC wanted to cancel the show? And how much commercial airtime could the network retain to sell to other advertisers during the program? Network executives also worried that audiences would be turned off if the show seemed to be too commercial. But Mark Pedowitz, executive vice president of ABC Entertainment Television Group...
...once sucked under and drowned. That night the river booms through my dreams. We're through. Early the next day we're off again, stiff but elated. Wet socks, dirt in our cups of tea, even the plastic bags have long ceased to matter. First off is the ABC rapid, named for the raft full of camera equipment lost there by an unlucky TV crew, courtesy of a partly submerged log. No problem. By now we're at ease in our rafts; the blue one steered by Pat and dubbed the QE2 for its superior buoyancy and comfort...
...Chavez said. “That didn’t happen this time. A large part of that is due to the fact that the country is already so divided: only somewhere around 7 [percent] of people are still unsure of who they will vote for [according to an ABC News/Washington Post poll...
According to the Shorenstein poll, the viewing audience this year would have surpassed that of the 2000 election if ABC, CBS and NBC had not reduced coverage from five hours in 2000 to three hours this year...