Word: cbs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...eyed in the late innings this week and next, don't be surprised. NBC's coverage of the 1989 play-offs marks the end of an era. TV's premier baseball network is being sent to the showers. Indeed, network baseball in general is getting a dunking. Next season CBS takes over major-league baseball's broadcast rights (currently divided between NBC and ABC) but will deliver only twelve games, plus the play-offs and the World Series. That means Saturday-afternoon-at-the- ball-park broadcasts (begun on NBC in 1957) will no longer be a weekly freebie. Those...
...expanding video technology. In the largest-ever Japanese takeover of a U.S. company, the electronics giant (fiscal 1989 sales: $16 billion) snapped up Columbia Pictures Entertainment, agreeing to pay $3.4 billion and assume $1.2 billion in debts. Coming less than two years after Sony's $2 billion purchase of CBS Records, the acquisition completes the transformation of the maker of Walkmans, televisions, stereos and videocassette players from gadgeteer to master showman. Sony now hopes to market American pop culture through leading- edge Japanese technologies in film, television and music...
Sony believes it can help guarantee the success of new hardware by ensuring that potential buyers will have a plentiful supply of entertainment software to play on their new machines. After buying CBS Records in 1987, Sony swiftly began converting the vast CBS library of popular albums by such artists as Michael Jackson, Bruce Springsteen and Barbra Streisand to the booming compact-disc format. Along with the wave of CDs from other companies, the CBS discs helped boost sales of Sony CD players from 2.9 million machines in 1987 to an estimated 6.5 million this year. Sony expects its musical...
...CBS correspondent Richard Roth, who was inTianamen Square as People's Army troops moved in,recalled how soldiers pulled him aside, knockedhim to the ground, punched him and detained himfor several hours...
...Shanghai, one of three Chinese cities directly under the national government's jurisdiction. There, a lobby notice in the Hilton hotel duly conforms to official policy: WESTERN NEWSPAPERS ARE UNAVAILABLE. But upstairs, there they are. The hotel's televisions air the supposedly banned daily news shows of ABC, NBC, CBS and CNN -- all broadcasting press conferences by Chinese dissidents who have escaped Beijing's dragnet...