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Mark C. Halperin '87, political director for ABC News, said ABC has stepped up its election coverage in anticipation of the Jan. 24 Iowa caucus and the Feb. 1 New Hampshire primary...
...With ABC running Who Wants to Be a Millionaire three days a week and the other major networks airing prime-time quiz shows, professional contestants around the country are enjoying a gold rush that would make an Internet entrepreneur jealous. Daniel Avila used to have to make a phone call at least to get on a game show. Avila, who began his quiz-show career in 1974 on Joker's Wild, had since appeared on shows like Jeopardy! and Sale of the Century, so he knew the ropes. But in these contestant-needy times, he actually got a call from...
...producers and network executives involved in these new shows--Millionaire, Fox's Greed, CBS' Winning Lines, NBC's Twenty One and forthcoming ones including CBS' $64,000 Question, ABC's Mastermind and You Don't Know Jack--admit they were caught short by Regis Philbin's success. But they are making up for it, piling on 6 1/2 hours of prime-time quizzing a week--as much as in the game-show heyday of the '50s. "Honestly, I had not been thinking about game shows before Millionaire," says Darnell. When offered a show by Dick Clark, he liked the idea...
Indeed, Mark C. Halperin '87, political director for ABC News, said his media outlet has stepped up its election coverage in anticipation of the Jan. 24 Iowa caucus and the Feb. 1 New Hampshire primary...
...rabbit ears. Now six networks and a gaggle of cable channels come through a seemingly infinite variety of pay-TV formats. Networks still link to cable companies for free, but increasingly hold them hostage by making the programming's availability contingent on the purchase of the networks' cable affiliates. ABC, for example, recently threatened to pull itself from Time Warner Cable if Time Warner didn't start carrying the SoapNet channel...