Word: cbs
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...move that could save subscribers an aggregate $1.2 billion. Rates will now be regulated by Washington and local governments. While cable companies complained, consumer groups and local governments say the FCC did not go far enough. In a separate decision that left Hollywood studios fuming, the FCC allowed ABC, CBS and NBC to produce and own television programs and retain their lucrative rerun rights as well. In erasing industry barriers, the ruling could eventually lead to mergers between studios and TV networks...
...most owners have managed to keep ahead of their exploding payrolls thanks to ever rising franchise values, a threefold leap in marketing revenues, a 25% jump in ball-park attendance since 1983, and most of all, the golden-goose $1.1 billion national-television deal that baseball signed with CBS...
...money-losing CBS contract expires after this season, as does a $400 million cable deal with ESPN. "Baseball is spending money that it's not going to have," warns a sports-broadcasting executive. Bill Giles, president and general partner of the Philadelphia Phillies and chairman of the owners' television committee, reckons that the new TV agreement to be negotiated this summer will bring in around $200 million a year (about $6 million per club) rather than the current $400 million. Small wonder that, facing a $7 million- per-team shortfall, some teams appear to be feeling the pinch...
Years ago, Gen. William Westmoreland sued CBS after a "60 Minutes" piece charged that he had deliberately concealed the extreme improbability of a U.S. victory in Vietnam, Dan Rather defended his network with the classic maxim. "If it looks like a duck, and it walks like a duck. "You can't practically perform the genetic testing necessary to confirm that a duck is a duck. You've got to go on what you observe...
...star who rarely does television, there's usually a tale about dried-up movie roles or a career on the downswing. The latest actress to come crawling back is Shelley Long, who left Cheers six years ago for a movie career that has gone nowhere. In GOOD ADVICE (CBS, debuting April 2), she plays a marriage counselor whose sunny outlook is dashed when she discovers that her husband has been cheating on her. In the usual sitcom way, her real family is at the office, where she shares quarters, oddly, with a bald-headed chiropractor and an aggressive divorce lawyer...