Word: cbs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...LAURA SCHLESSINGER Love guru quits big TV deal because of CBS's ties to Howard Stern. Morality in media? Egad...
...past 100 years--is the first of six special issues TIME will produce over the next two years. Future issues will list the most influential Artists and Entertainers, Builders and Titans, Scientists and Thinkers, and Heroes and Inspirations. In late 1999, TIME will select its Person of the Century. CBS News, our partner in this project, will be airing six prime-time specials on our choices over the next two years...
...signal is broadcast and there's no one there to watch it, will it still display a crystalline digital picture? Hollywood must wonder after last week's word from ABC and CBS. Both networks will launch high-definition television programming in November, but despite the clear need for standards, they've settled on competing ones: CBS's 1080i, "the highest-quality HDTV digital format," vs. ABC's 720P, "the right solution for a converged future." With high-end sets that get both signals priced at $7,000, early HDTV could be playing to a paltry house...
...CBS' production team, mining the network's vast trove of archival footage was both daunting and eye opening. In their eight months on the project, team members have viewed more than 1,000 hours of footage and done no small amount of globe trotting to chase down rare material, including whimsical portraits of world leaders captured in home movies. Where television footage did not exist, they consulted the 70-year-old CBS radio archive, the National Archives, the Library of Congress and even the archives of foreign governments, such as those of Germany and China. Finally, CBS caught up with...
Viewers will not be looking at a conventional broadcast news set. Instead, CBS News anchor Dan Rather will walk through a computer-generated gallery of some of the century's most luminous and unforgettable faces. "We're using 21st century technology to sum up the 20th century," says Andrew Heyward, president of CBS News. Strolling about electronically among those famous names was thought provoking, says Rather: "Watching the program, participating in discussions and trying to think of candidates for my own private TIME 100, I've had a rare opportunity to reflect on what's important...