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...case has heated up, Bowers has drawn fresh attention from journalists--and has not taken gracefully to it. One CBS-TV reporter says Bowers took a swing at him when he tried to ask him a question. And Bowers tried to ram a TIME photographer with his car. Bowers has declined to comment publicly about the prospect of a retrial, and he did not return telephone calls asking about the Dahmer case or his clashes with journalists...
...nation's TV households. An average hour of ABC's prime-time schedule was seen by just 6.8%. "A significant number of Americans are watching [the nightly news]," says NBC News president Andrew Lack, "and millions would be disappointed if it weren't there." Says CBS News president Andrew Heyward: "I see prime-time news as a supplement to the evening-news program, not a substitute...
...Even at CBS, where prime-time news has had a bumpier road (48 Hours, now in its 11th season, is still plugging along, but Public Eye with Bryant Gumbel has fizzled in the ratings), programmers are toying with an alluring but risky idea: expanding the venerated 60 Minutes to a second night. The chief stumbling block is the people behind 60 Minutes, who fear diluting the show. "We think it's a terrible idea," says executive producer Don Hewitt. "[Network programmers] hope to persuade us. But they haven...
Shortly after becoming ABC News president in 1977, Roone Arledge proposed that the network's struggling evening newscast be switched to 10:30. (The idea didn't fly, and Arledge created Nightline instead.) Former NBC News president Lawrence Grossman recalls that in 1990, after leaving NBC, he suggested to CBS chairman Laurence Tisch that the network should move its evening news to 10 o'clock, where it would get a bigger audience. (Tisch listened, but nothing came of it.) "There has to be some change in the structure we now have," says former CBS News president Van Gordon Sauter, "where...
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