Word: cbs
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...prevent the media, MIT, the police and others from disturbing Scott's parents and twin sister. Tuesday, I moved Scott's belongings out of his former fraternity house, while five television cameras followed my every move. Pictures of my carrying his belongings were the lead story on the national CBS and NBC news that night. Scott's parents drove their son's corpse back to their home near Buffalo last week, just one month after they drove their pride...
...Stewart is, as the saying goes, wired. Last month she premiered a six-day-a-week television show on CBS, Martha Stewart Living, replacing a syndicated program of the same name. Earlier this year she jumped from her twice-weekly guest spot on nbc's Today show to a weekly slot on rival CBS This Morning. Now, instead of earning appearance fees, she controls all advertising for her segment. The new daily show, which she owns outright, will follow cbs This Morning in most markets. "Sometimes you have to do things for an economic and brand sensibility," she says...
First, let it be known that Bryant Gumbel doesn't spend every hour of the workday in the nattiest Joseph Abboud suit. On a midsummer morning at CBS's Manhattan studios, he is wearing slightly wrinkled cotton trousers and a golf shirt as he heads an editorial meeting for his new weekly prime-time newsmagazine show, Public Eye with Bryant Gumbel (CBS, Wednesdays...
...live element will be, though, is questionable. And other than that feature, Public Eye does not appear to be different from its peers. The show's producers and regular correspondents (among them, veteran Bernard Goldberg and the young, powder blue-shoe wearing Alison Stewart) come mostly from other CBS newsmagazines, such as 48 Hours and the network's mercifully short-lived Coast to Coast. Taped segments will cover the usual mix of hard and soft news, with stories ranging from Bosnian war criminals to incompetent telephone operators. Hidden-camera reports, producers say, will occasionally be used in the broadcast...
...plans for Public Eye may seem formulaic, but just how stressful launching such a venture can be was obvious two days after Gumbel played host to the Emmys in Los Angeles and was back on the East Coast in a CBS wardrobe room getting prepped for a photo shoot. As network staff members dropped by to compliment him on his performance, he was yukking it up with the hair and makeup women, telling them how he had thought about helping Gillian Anderson on stage because she looked so immobile in her tight dress. But his spirits quickly shifted, when...