Word: cbs
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When Washington's movers and shakers get home from a hard day at work and switch on CBS for the 7 o'clock news, they get TV's equivalent of the New York Times or Washington Post: a sober (if succinct) look at the day's events. Come next September, however, those viewers will have to tune in half an hour earlier for Dan Rather's report. Replacing it at 7 will be a different sort of news show, based on a different sort of newspaper: USA Today...
...country, have bought it thus far, and most plan to air it in the lucrative hour just before prime time, when game shows like Wheel of Fortune predominate. What bothers network news executives, however, is the decision by Washington's WUSA-TV (also owned by Gannett) to push the CBS Evening News up by 30 minutes to make room for it. New York City's WCBS-TV is expected to make the same move. These stations can keep more of the ad revenues with a syndicated show in that time slot than with a network program, but risk reducing...
Israeli television showed CBS footage of Israeli teen-agers inside the village, some with blood stains on their faces and clothes, screaming at cameramen to called the army for help...
Despite the Dukakis victory, a CBS pollindicated that the governor's support was softerthan Jackson's or Gore's. It found that thegovernor's support was evenly split between firmbackers and those who liked him "withreservations," while Jackson's strong supportersby far outnumbered his weak ones...
...brief movie career, which included one line in a Doris Day film. Guest appearances for Jack Paar, Johnny Carson's predecessor in NBC-TV's late-night spot, won Griffin his own daytime talk show in 1960, which he syndicated. It was so successful that in 1969 CBS offered him $80,000 a week for a show opposite Carson...