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...Street Beat program, which airs on Saturdays from 5 to 8 p.m., is not scheduled for broadcast in January because of WHRB's scheduled "orgies"--extended programming blocks during which the station features a particular theme or musical artist...
...corporate sibling, Turner Publishing, with photos by the Soviet agency TASS and an introduction by Hedrick Smith. Another recent book is the disjointed but richly anecdotal Live from Baghdad (Doubleday; $22), written by Robert Wiener, producer of CNN's wartime coverage from Iraq. Wiener's final words are "To broadcast, for the first time in history, live pictures to the entire world of a war in progress from behind enemy lines. Murrow would have loved...
Today CNN has a staff of more than 1,700, a global reach in excess of 75 million homes and a budget that keeps growing while the three broadcast networks cut back. Its headquarters are spread over several floors in a hotel- and-shopping complex in downtown Atlanta, formerly called the Omni and now dubbed CNN Center. The network has established its credibility, and it makes money: a profit of $134 million in 1990 and most likely more...
...also reflects Turner's belief that TV news can be done far more cheaply than it was at the once profligate broadcast networks. CNN salaries are still lower than those at the networks, though the disparity is shrinking. (A correspondent joining CNN today typically makes $60,000 to $70,000, while a rookie network reporter earns around $100,000.) And CNN gets more out of its people. Unlike the networks, where correspondents have to fight for airtime, CNN uses practically everything its reporters file. "There's a constant effort to maximize profit for labor expended," says Jerusalem bureau chief Charles...
...PRESIDENT TOM JOHNSON'S top priority has been to strengthen the network's overseas channel. Currently, CNN International is a mix of domestic CNN, Headline News (its news-radio-like companion service) and 3 1/2 hours a day of original fare aimed at the audience abroad. The channel broadcast most of the Clarence Thomas-Anita Hill hearings but presented only half-hour daily summations of the Smith rape trial. Many overseas viewers, though glued to CNN during major events, find its day-to-day programming parochial and its international coverage thin. Viewers in some parts of Asia have been turning...