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Last week the FCC and broadcasters approached an agreement to phase in new rules that should make the sharper images of digital or high-definition TV available in time for the 1998 football season. By then, broadcasters such as NBC and CBS have agreed, the nation's top 10 markets will be getting the richer television signal--which includes lush digital sound and a crystal-clear picture. Still, few analysts expect HDTV to take off anytime before the millennium. Between the $3,000 price tag for the sets and the slow arrival of new programming, couch potatoes may have...
...line of people trooped up, one by one, to sit next to him, shake his hand and get a Polaroid memento of the occasion. Comedy Central enlivened the floor at the cable-TV industry's national convention two weeks ago with an array of carnival games, like Skee Ball. CBS, pushing its new cable channel, Eye on People, took a more subdued approach, with a booth featuring plush blue carpeting, comfortable seating and lots of space. The only thing that seemed to be in short supply was people...
Starting new channels has never been easy, but CBS's much belated entry into the cable sweepstakes, which debuts this week, is facing tougher odds than most. The network, to a great extent, has only itself to blame. While its broadcast rivals were busily getting into the cable business (ABC with ESPN; NBC with CNBC and America's Talking; Fox with FX and the Fox News Channel), CBS sat on its hands--or rather, on chairman Laurence Tisch's tight fists. That finally changed in 1995, when the company was sold to Westinghouse, which already owned a piece...
...trouble was, by the time CBS was ready to get into the game, all the good concepts had been taken. For Eye on People, the network has gathered up some top talent at CBS News, and a lot of videotape that's been lying around for years, to assemble a potpourri of informational programming about (you guessed it) people. Charles Kuralt is the host for I Remember, in which reporters talk about their reaction to major news events, like the Oklahoma City bombing. Paula Zahn anchors Fast Forward, which takes a look at people who used...
...fuzzy. Prefers not to work with loud weathermen, late-night talk show hosts or Deborah Norville. Remuneration: estimated at about $5 million a year. After two months of golf, deliberation and negotiations with the three big networks, BRYANT GUMBEL has found a new place to hang his fedora: cbs. He will be host of a prime-time weekly newsmagazine show and has formed a company with the network to produce other programs. "I'd be lying if I said I wasn't somewhat sad about leaving a place that was my home for a quarter-century," says Gumbel, who wept...