Word: cbs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...PHALANX OF CAMERAS COVered the back wall. Gray-suited CBS executives lined the side aisles. Reporters crowded into the room as if the Iran-contra hearings were on. But for David Letterman, the press conference at CBS's New York City headquarters to announce that he was jumping from NBC to CBS was just another late-night monologue...
...show, Good Morning America and C-SPAN are all filming) and a meeting waiting to happen. Someone reports that 34% of this year's Grammy nominees will be performing (gratis, of course, as is everyone) and that Michael Jackson needs a call. Thomason is still twisting the arms of CBS, Time Warner and Disney to find out what they will pay to telecast the events, including gala performances by Barbra Streisand, Aretha Franklin, Bill Cosby, a reunited Fleetwood Mac, a vast parade with two Elvis impersonators and a lawn-chair precision drill team. How did Thomason end up here? "Obviously...
Friendships that last through failure sometimes founder on success, unless it is mutual. For the Thomasons and Clintons, there is little left to want from each other except each other. "I am suspicious of friendships in Hollywood," says Jay Kriegel, a senior vice president of CBS, "but I'm not suspicious of theirs." There are few jobs as influential as the one the Thomasons already have, reaching 40 million people a week, but there is one thing that Linda asked for: to spend a night in the White House. On Jan. 21, the hicks from Arkansas will sleep...
Cathy Perron, program director for Boston CBSaffiliate WDHD-TV channel 7, said she was "veryexcited" about Letterman coming to CBS...
...before any sort of officialannouncement had been made to the affiliates,Perron was unable to say for sure whether thestation would drop its current lineup in favor ofLetterman, but said they would certainly take a"long hard look" at doing so. She described theshow as "an important project for CBS and for ourstation as well...