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...Atlanta Entrepreneur Ted Turner and a right-wing group allied with Republican Senator Jesse Helms of North Carolina. Financially drained by its anti- takeover maneuvers (the company repurchased 21% of its own common stock for nearly $1 billion), CBS has since embarked on a painful cost-cutting campaign. The Broadcast Group last month announced that it was eliminating 700 jobs, more than 8% of its work force. The cuts included 90 positions in the news division, where 125 jobs had already been lost in a cutback last fall...
...coming season appear no brighter. The CBS Evening News, long the undisputed king of its realm, is now embroiled in a fierce three-way battle. And the travails of the CBS Morning News have become a corporate embarrassment. After trying everything but food stamps to help the third-rated broadcast, the network announced that it would remove the show from the news division and start from scratch in January with a new, as yet undetermined, program for the time period...
Speculation over what Tisch might do if he were at the helm of CBS is swirling around the broadcast community. First to go, some contend, would be Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Thomas Wyman, brought in from Pillsbury in 1980 as CBS Founder William S. Paley's hand-picked successor. (Indeed, Wyman and other top executives are guaranteed lucrative severance packages if any single interest acquires more than 25% of CBS's voting stock.) Close behind, say insiders, could be Van Gordon Sauter, the president of CBS News, whom many have blamed for the stumbling performance of the Morning News...
Although Tisch last year denied that he wanted to run CBS, he has kept his current plans quiet. Most broadcast observers do not expect him to make any sudden moves. But Tisch is not the sort of executive to sit idly by as CBS flounders. "Historically, when he makes a commitment, he wants to make his commitment work out," says John Reidy, media analyst for Drexel Burnham Lambert. "He wants to get a return on his investment...
...Typical of a - preseason exhibition after just two weeks of practice, there were waves of substitutions and a flood of mistakes. The Cowboys fumbled four times and were intercepted once. But the fumbles bothered less than the long pauses for huddles and time-outs. Accustomed to their weekly compressed broadcast of top games with edited nonstop action, British followers of the sport are a highlight hybrid, completely at sea among the delays of the actual event. "I didn't realize they had this many commercials on American television," said one British fan. "I've never seen so much standing around...