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...veteran character actor; in New York City. Though millions knew the longtime radio soap star for his distinctly paternal, honeyed voice on countless commercials ("With a name like Smucker's, it has to be good"), he showed his face most memorably as the level-headed managing editor on CBS's late-'70s series Lou Grant...
...Tasmanian apple farmer, Heyward started at a local CBS station in what was meant to be a year-long stint, then gradually rose up through the network’s ranks to become president of CBS News in 1996. He is the network’s second-longest serving president...
...said the challenge for news organizations like CBS is to convey the news to increasingly partisan viewers while themselves remaining ideologically neutral...
...CBS News President Andrew Heyward ’72 credited the explosion of cable news and the Internet with the “iPod-ization of American media”—in which viewers can actively choose what news they consume—at an intimate gathering of students and faculty in Kirkland House Monday evening...
Troubles for CBS may not be over. Wall Streeters suggest that Loew's chairman, Laurence Tisch, who has bought 12% of the company and last week became a member of the firm's board of directors, might try to acquire CBS himself or with some corporate raiders. Says Edward Atorino of Smith Barney: "CBS hoped that bringing this fox into the hen house would keep away other foxes. The trick is not going to work." No one yet knows the plot of the final episode in this CBS series. TELEPHONES Demon Dialers Beware...