Word: cbs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...minor candidate and who is a major candidate," White says. "They could have just as easily left Alexander out. It's totally arbitrary and foolish. This is why people distrust the media." Keyes told NBC that he is considering legal action against WSB-TV, and suggested in a CBS Radio interview that race played a factor in his treatment...
...toast of television. After toiling in the wee hours for more than a decade, the host of NBC's Late Night had been passed over for the job as Johnny Carson's successor on the Tonight Show. But he parlayed that slight into a lucrative new contract at CBS and his own 11:30 p.m. show to compete with Jay Leno. The crowds that jammed his studio audience gave him standing ovations every night; his Top 10 lists became a national obsession. The ratings soared, surpassing Leno's. Dave was a winner, and America loved...
...book, which was essentially the story of Letterman's victory: how he outsmarted the network suits and became the most sought-after personality in television. The movie, even more than the book, pokes fun at the ineptitude of the NBC executives who let Letterman get away and ends with CBS's triumphal press conference welcoming Dave to the network. There's a postscript acknowledging that the ratings have since turned around, but the movie's take seems dated. After all, those NBC executives may be weasels, but who has the last laugh...
...take it when they're making fun of me, I wouldn't be a very good sport." NBC executives have refused to comment; Letterman's camp is understandably more pleased. "It's a broad satire on the trade, and I was amused by it," says former top CBS executive Howard Stringer, who wooed Letterman to the network. Letterman's executive producer, Robert Morton, found the movie "fairly accurate," partly because "Letterman came off as a decent man who cared about doing the right thing...
...coronation; instead, it was a critical fiasco. Letterman's mocking irreverence ("Oprah...Uma") fell flat with the Hollywood crowd, and with most viewers. In truth, his performance wasn't all that bad, but it foreshadowed his ratings decline. Even though that drop can be explained largely by CBS's prime-time collapse (which has reduced his lead-in audience) and the loss of key affiliates, Letterman's winning aura was broken...