Word: cbs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...cynicism really the best way for the lowest-rated major network to arouse the public's interest? Ratings for all of the "Big Three" television networks (CBS, NBC, and ABC) have been slipping steadily for years, a sign that people are turning elsewhere (cable, videos, multiplexes) for entertainment. With the exception of an occasional hit like "ER," people are tuning out. The status of network TV in the minds of the public is too weak to support irony. ABC's posters, joking about the pointlessness, lack of impact and questionable quality of most TV programming, come too close...
Good news: fresh episodes of Bill Cosby's CBS sitcom will start taping this week. The show may be struggling in the ratings and a little short on yucks, but at least it will be a relief from the seamy, real-life family drama that America's favorite father has been starring in all summer...
...journalistic community's sensitivity to the blurring of the lines between news and entertainment has caused some sober second thoughts. CNN president Tom Johnson said last week that in the future such appearances will probably be banned, bringing the cable network in line with the longtime policies of CBS...
...verdict may hinge, in effect, on which of two tapes the six male and six female jurors find more compelling: an audiotape of a phone message left by Jackson for Peter Lund, the former CEO of CBS, stating she is Cosby's daughter and wants to discuss "how this will affect CBS if I go to any tabloids," or a videotape of the backstage party that followed that final shoot of The Cosby Show, showing Cosby with his arm draped around Jackson. "However much Mr. Cosby is beloved by the universe," says Lynch, "if this young woman has some reasonable...
Kuralt, 62, died in New York City of a heart attack. He had been suffering from systemic lupus erythematosus, an autoimmune disease, after his retirement from CBS News in 1994. There is some resonance in his death's occurring on the Fourth of July, not just the birthday of the country whose discovery he continued but, as it happens, also a milestone in the exploration of another world. His four-decade career is testament to the fact that there are wonders that do not need to take your breath away, and that there are underappreciated worlds to wander into, down...