Word: cbs
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...still enthusiastic—volunteers. A few days later, Sawyer quietly admitted that she had by then heard a second recording of the rally at which, she said, “the so-called scream couldn’t really be heard at all.” CBS, ABC, CNN and even Fox News all admitted to varying degrees that they’d overplayed the clip. But their sheepish statements of regret didn’t approach anywhere near 633 airings. And in the weeks that followed, it was that scream—at last, incontrovertible...
...stamped him “unelectable”—an essentially meaningless adjective in the earliest months of an election year, but a self-fulfilling prophecy when many people believe whatever their TV anchor tells them. In one glaring example of an obituary published before death, the CBS affiliate in Jacksonville, Fla. posted on its website a Knight-Ridder wire story announcing Dean’s Wisconsin loss, comparing his campaign to a “plummeting comet,” at 8:42 in the morning on Feb. 17, just hours after the Wisconsin polls had opened...
Acquirer (Target) VALUE 1. AOL (Time Warner) $182 billion 2. AT&T (TCI Inc.) $70 billion 3. Comcast (Walt Disney) $66 billion *4. AT&T (MediaOne) $52 billion 5. Comcast (AT&T Broadband) $51 billion 6. Viacom (CBS) $40 billion 7. Clear Channel (AMFM Inc.) $23 billion...
Fans of I Love Lucy, rejoice: Lucille Ball has been reincarnated, and she goes by the name Ray Romano. Like his (and her) hit CBS sitcom, Romano’s first foray into the world of live action movies is straight out of the 1950s, in ways both amiably amusing and jarringly old-fashioned...
...credibility, and CBS is the most watched network on TV largely because it has rejuvenated its audience with edgier shows. Survivor is MTV's The Real World redone as a game show, and 33 million people watched the post--Super Bowl debut of Survivor: All-Stars, with the return of player Richard Hatch, who spent much of the episode nude (albeit pixelated). CSI, TV's most popular drama, may be the goriest show in broadcast. So what's a ratings-greedy mogul...