Word: cbs
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...stations receive ratings that will allow them to fix their advertising rates for the coming months, prompting the networks to trundle out their most lurid and spectacular offerings. This May, for instance, ABC has scored with an apocalyptic four- part mini-series based on Stephen King's The Stand; CBS is airing a TV movie with the can't-miss title Menendez; Fox inexplicably wasted its own Menendez movie on the nonsweeps month of April, but has countered with episodes of some of its most popular programs in 3-D and scratch-'n'-sniff "Aromavision...
Have you heard about the Federal Expresses? It's a potential football team in a new corporate league the cbs people have pinned to the drawing board. If this goes through, we will be rooting for the Union Carbides or the Meridian Bancorps, the Reynolds Metals or maybe even the Digital Equipments...
...paper; it also printed a column by William Safire chiding other journalists for taking her seriously. The Los Angeles Times, by contrast, unhesitatingly reported Jones' charges in February. Of the TV networks, ABC ran a brief and oblique mention on an evening newscast in February, but NBC, CNN and CBS held off until last week, and even then mostly gave the story short shrift. TIME briefly mentioned the case in a two-page story on Clinton haters in the April 11 issue, while last week Newsweek used the gist of Jones' charges as a metaphor for the President's governing...
There is a level to his criticism which is that it's the Thing to do. David Letterman goes to CBS, and his show is big, and so NBC is portrayed in the press as the people who let him go, therefore any decision they make is going to be stupid. I think there are some critics that look at this show as 'It's the show that's not David Letterman.' My feeling is I'm not going to do his show. I'm not going to do anything like his show. I'm a different person...
...catch you, hold you and kill you." The ABC News magazine show Day One, in a report on Kessler's FDA investigation, leveled tough charges that cigarette companies "manipulate" the nicotine content of their cigarettes to keep customers smoking -- charges that have prompted a libel suit from Philip Morris. CBS's 60 Minutes weighed in with a report suggesting that cigarette manufacturers conspired to keep fire-safe cigarettes off the market...