Word: cbs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...affairs. The most important was with Averell Harriman, the top U.S. envoy in Britain, from whom she channeled intelligence information to her father-in-law to help draw the U.S. into the war. When Harriman moved to Moscow two years later as ambassador, she began a torrid romance with cbs broadcaster Edward R. Murrow, the love of her life, who proposed, then changed his mind when his wife gave birth...
...what may be the most intriguing question of all: How does Consumer's Edge fit into Diller's long-range goals, which for big thinkers like him tend to amount to total world domination? Two years after his painful failures to merge QVC first with Paramount and then with CBS, Diller operates from a power base called Silver King Communications. It's a grab bag of second-tier media properties that includes the nation's sixth largest group of TV stations; the Home Shopping Network (HSN); the dormant production studio Savoy Pictures; and the Internet Shopping Network, a Website...
...them up? One can imagine--albeit with a bit of effort--some interactively televised descendant of Consumer's Edge and HSN merging with Silver King's stations and studio to become a force in 21st century media. In the absence of a brand name like Paramount or cbs, though, that would be a trick on a par with Diller's last one: building a fourth network on the backs of The Simpsons and Married...with Children...
...anchorman Tom Brokaw was one of the three most uncomfortable men in America last Tuesday night. Like his counterparts at ABC and CBS, he had to vamp on the air as two bizarrely incompatible events prepared to collide: President Clinton's State of the Union speech and a verdict in the O.J. Simpson civil trial. In Brokaw's earpiece, frantic conversations were taking place between NBC News executives in New York City and the producer on duty in Washington, with Brokaw chiming in whenever he got a few seconds off the air. "It was an American cultural meltdown," he says...
...combined audience for the Big Three evening newscasts has declined steadily over the past 15 years, nibbled at by a horde of competing news sources on cable, local TV and elsewhere. Older viewers who do tune in to network news, moreover, are notoriously slow to change their habits. The CBS Evening News was No. 1 for all of the 1970s and most of the '80s. In 1989 ABC's World News Tonight took over the top spot and held on to it for years. The broadcasts have been anchored by the same three middle-aged white males for more than...