Word: cbs
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Building his reputation as an escape artist, he wiggled out of ropes and straitjackets, as well as handcuffs, sometimes while in a coffin submerged in water. At 27 he was invited to appear on a CBS television show, It's Magic. "They hauled me 110 ft. above Broadway with a crane, hanging me upside down at the end of a cable in a straitjacket -- and I escaped from the jacket. It got me on the front page of the Herald Tribune." It also launched his television career, which has included 32 appearances on the Tonight show alone. Randi's formula...
Ever since Laurence Tisch became chief executive of CBS in 1986, tight budgets have become a way of life at the network. So the news last week that CBS had outbid all rivals for the TV rights to the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville, France, came as a surprise. CBS will pay $243 million for its first Olympics since 1960. The bid seemed inordinately high to industry experts, in part because of the other networks' diffidence: NBC offered $175 million plus half of any advertising profits in excess of $325 million, while ABC, which paid $309 million for the Calgary...
Bobbie Battista, an anchorwoman for Cable News Network, is not exactly a household name in the U.S., but she is a celebrity in Poland. French, Italian and Japanese viewers now wake up to the CBS Evening News with Dan Rather, while Australians fall asleep to the sound of Jane Pauley and Bryant Gumbel of NBC's Today show -- at midnight. Marshall McLuhan's oft-cited 1967 declaration is finally coming to pass: "We now live in a global village . . . a simultaneous happening...
Economics, not communications theory, has been the real impetus for the explosion in the export of U.S. news shows. "What we've got here are programs that are already produced," says Samuel Roberts, executive director of international broadcasts for CBS News. "Anything that we sell for overseas is just gravy." An increase in the number of communications satellites and the relaxation of strict state regulation of TV in many countries have encouraged the growth of new broadcast and cable channels. ABC has signed a deal with Dublin-based Anglo-Vision to distribute its news shows to hotels in 17 European...
...habit of chattering on the Tonight show and of lunching with the glossy wives of moneyed men diminished his serious reputation as it increased his notoriety. He began to take on the appearance of a piffler, a court jester to such rich beauties as Babe Paley, wife of longtime CBS Chairman William Paley, and Slim Keith, wife of British Financier Lord Keith. Clarke comments that Capote looked upon the stylish rich "the way the Greeks looked upon their gods, with mingled awe and envy." To amuse these friends, he invented a game called International Daisy Chain, in which the point...