Word: burbank
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...their weekend softball games in Burbank, Calif., as in their offices nearby, Tartikoff and his NBC crew radiate the highly competitive, slightly giddy elan of a Cinderella team, up from nowhere to challenge the league leader. They have every reason to feel peacocky. After running dead last in ) prime-time audience ratings for nine years, NBC since September '84 has scrambled to within a tenth of a rating point of the dominant network, CBS, in that arcane but widely accepted Nielsen yardstick of "television homes." For those who count heads rather than houses, NBC leads in the number of viewers...
...seeds of this new cop show were planted in mundane TV fashion, in the Burbank, Calif., office of NBC's Tartikoff. Trying to figure out how the network might cash in on the success of rock videos, he had jotted down a few notes to himself; one read simply, "MTV cops." Tartikoff presented the notion to Anthony Yerkovich, 34, formerly a writer and producer for Hill Street Blues, who related a movie idea he had been mulling, about a pair of vice cops in Miami. Yerkovich went to the typewriter and turned out the script for a two-hour pilot...
...careless or greedy Italian farmers endangered the health of spaghetti- sauce lovers from Bologna to Burbank? No, the Italian Ministry of Health proclaimed last week. After a ten-day investigation that fueled a heated public debate, the government announced that the Italian tomato crop, which accounts for some 60% of the world's production of peeled canned tomatoes, was perfectly safe for consumption...
Siskel "How about Part 12: night of the Living Jasons,where he learns asexual reproduction and thousands of his clones stalk the woods of West Burbank, California...
...Burbank also said that word processors had gained popularity among History and Literature seniors. "This is the year of the computer revolution. More students than ever before are producing their these on word processors, so we expect to see a wide victory of type faces and fortunes...