Word: cbs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...healthy patient to "unnecessary surgery." Caine was "only a few tests and a half-hour away from the operating table," said Ross in a voice-over. For Dateline producers, this was just the sort of hard- hitting video journalism that would put them in the same league as CBS's reigning 60 Minutes. For officials at Southeastern Eye Center, it was grounds for legal action...
...huge billboard, Jay Leno's battering-ram jaw juts out over Broadway. AMERICA IS STANDING UP FOR JAY, the sign says. Maybe NBC hopes the nation's insomniacs will take a loyalty oath to keep watching the Tonight Show, and repel alien threats from David Letterman on CBS and Chevy Chase on Fox. So who's standing up for these guys? Bosnia...
...Dees, Joan Rivers, Pat Sajak, Dennis Miller, Ron Reagan and Whoopi Goldberg have played and, expensively, folded. Arsenio's audience -- his rainbow coalition of young viewers, a high proportion of them women -- has ebbed recently, and will slip further when his syndicated show is bumped toward dawn on many CBS and Fox affiliates...
...people at General Electric" on his old show usually meant Dave had had another dustup with his bonehead corporate bosses. Letterman's new headquarters -- located a few stories above New York City's Ed Sullivan Theater, where he is about to unveil his new late-night talk show on CBS -- are clean, all right, but not without intrusion. The smell of roasting chicken wafts up every afternoon from the fast-food place downstairs and causes most of the staff to make faces. "I don't mind it," he says cheerily. "You build the place over a chicken restaurant, what...
...Tonight Show, it was Letterman, the disappointed office seeker, who drew the sympathy vote. Last fall, when his contract with NBC was coming due after 11 years as custodian of the post-Carson time period, he was besieged with offers. In January, when he announced he was jumping to CBS for a reported $14 million a year, Letterman reached the superstar pantheon. Starting next Monday when his show resurfaces on CBS at 11:35 p.m. Eastern time -- going head to head against Leno's Tonight Show in most cities -- he will be the point man in the most frenzied battle...