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...seven cable channels and eight music companies. It is about to merge with Turner Broadcasting, itself a media powerhouse centered on CNN. General Electric owns NBC network news, soon to be a comprehensive multimedia news service on MSNBC, nine television stations and more than 10 cable channels. Disney owns ABC network news, 21 ABC radio stations, 18 television stations, five motion picture studios, two publishing houses, eight cable channels, 11 newspapers and three music studios. Westing-house owns CBS network news, three cable channels, 39 radio stations and 14 television stations...
...networks' offers last week fell well short of Taylor's vision. All promised to somehow work more face time for the candidates into their regular news programming. ABC extended an hour of prime time in the last week of the campaign, inviting the candidates to sit in the same room and have it out, free from journalistic moderation. NBC said it would seek to have the candidates on evening news shows such as Dateline NBC. CBS made a vague promise of "free, unfiltered access" to viewers through its news programs. CNN anted up with five minutes a week for four...
Oddly enough, the proposals all come just as events overtake the imperative. Thanks to the Internet, talk radio, C-SPAN and cable talk shows, voters this year have more direct access to candidates than ever before. The very day that ABC announced its offer of an hour in prime time, Bill Clinton was live on CNBC discussing Senate gridlock over the minimum wage. Then, minutes later, C-SPAN--the All Dole All the Time network when the Senate is in session--showed the majority leader rebutting the President. Internet Websites like TIME-CNN's AllPolitics http:www.allpolitics.com/ routinely include...
Starting last fall, however, Murdoch's interest in news suddenly revived. In November he announced plans to start a 24-hour news channel; shortly thereafter two network rivals, ABC and NBC, did the same. Fox seemed especially ill equipped to pull off such an ambitious venture, given that unlike its competitors, it has no news infrastructure to build on. Fox also faces daunting problems getting space on the crowded cable dial. (NBC will put its new network, which debuts in July, on a channel it already owns, America's Talking; ABC hopes to package its service, promised for late this...
...program will move outside the Beltway on occasion, in an effort to broaden its appeal. "What we want to do is bring some new people into the tent on Sunday mornings," he says. Fox has also beefed up its political coverage, hiring Emily Rooney, former executive producer of ABC's World News Tonight, to run a New York-based political unit with 50 staff members. They supplied stations with daily stories during the early primaries, and will cover both political conventions this summer. Local news directors, meanwhile, praise Fox for its work on such stories as the arrest...