Word: cbs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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DATE September 1998 RUMOR Ken Starr blasted "public pornography" on 60 Minutes back in 1987 EFFECT CBS had to refute: Starr never appeared on show...
...Long-Playing Record 1948, by Peter Carl Goldmark of CBS...
...Color TV 1953, by RCA, whose design beat out CBS...
Those a bit closer to the game had another opinion of Rozelle: as a shrewd promoter of his sport. He invented the Super Bowl, for example, and sold the rights to the first game to two networks (NBC and CBS), which forced them to compete for viewers. He invented (with ABC Sports chief Roone Arledge) Monday Night Football, which is the second longest running prime-time show on American television, after 60 Minutes. He exhibited a taste for kitsch and spectacle unrivaled in professional sports. He loved floats and glitter and marching bands. His idea of beauty was a balloon...
...didn't matter, when most computer users had only a relative handful of files to manage. Big changes are in the works that will demote computers and their operating systems to the status of TV sets. You can walk up to any TV and tune in CBS; you will be able to walk up to any computer and tune in your own files, your electronic life. The questions of the moment are, What will the screen look like? How will the controls work? What exactly will they do? and Who will clean...