Word: broadcasting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...last week the opportunity to pair the largely fuddy-duddy CBS assets--broadcast television, radio and outdoor advertising--with Viacom's hipper, younger, cable and movie-studio properties--MTV, VH-1, Nickelodeon and Paramount Pictures--was a deal too good for Karmazin not to persuade Redstone to believe in. "Look, we didn't need a studio," Karmazin says, smiling. "But nobody in the world can tell me it's a bad idea to have...
...landscape where to stand alone is to stand in a hole. "The reason you're seeing so much anxiety everywhere else is that everyone else wishes they'd done it," says Howard Stringer, CEO of Sony Corp. of America, a record company and movie studio that still lacks a broadcast network...
...days after the broadcast, prison officials retaliated by moving Geronimo from San Diego to Mule Creek and then denying him his own cell, a necessity due to medical problems stemming from Vietnam war wounds. This retaliatory harassment is an outrage...
...excluding Superior, has the largest area. Contestant David Honea suggested Lake Huron. Philbin's TelePrompTer suggested Lake Michigan, and the voluble host sent Honea packing. After the show, Honea politely asked producers to double-check. Guess who was right? ABC has invited Honea back for the show's final broadcast to continue his quest for the elusive million, which should help ABC in its quest for those elusive high ratings...
...programming pays off in more than ratings. In a nutshell: life is cheap. For cable channels, which lack the deep pockets of their broadcast counterparts, bios are TV Helper. Jason Goodman, a former producer for BTM, says an episode costs around $150,000; a biographical movie can cost a few million dollars. The cooperation of the subject can defray costs, not only by allowing extensive interviews but also by providing free, all-important photos. Many biography shows will proceed only with the subject's approval. E! and A&E, which do some shows without cooperation--"It's Biography, not Autobiography...