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...million Viewers who watched the first day of the 2006 NCAA basketball tournament online, the first time CBS has aired games free...
...This week, the Harvard men’s and women’s fencing teams are competing at the NCAA Championships in Houston—and both have a legitimate shot at a national title. They’re not televised on CBS, but rumor has it that Harvard’s fencers are pretty good. The teams boast two Junior World Champions, and three Crimson fencers will compete in April’s Junior World Championships in South Korea. The women rank in at No. 3 nationally...
...when things go bad for any White House - and an NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll released Wednesday night put Bush's approval rating at 37% - rumors of a shakeup always begin to fly. And indeed, all of the speculation was dismissed by some knowledgeable people as just that. However, CBS News reported Wednesday night that Howard Baker, who was Senate majority leader, chief of staff to Ronald Reagan and ambassador to Japan for this administration, had placed a call to the White House on Tuesday and "sent a direct message" to Chief of Staff Andrew Card urging him to hire...
...media today, focusing on the market pressures which affect the quality of broadcast news. “Ratings no longer are king. Demographics are,” Rather said, noting that even shows with high ratings can now be taken off the air for demographic reasons. The long-time CBS News anchorman, who retired from his post last spring after more than half a century in the press, described the news as a “public trust.” He emphasized the media’s obligation to public service, which he said “has gone...
Just in case HOWARD STERN was running out of villains to decry on the air, his old boss, CBS CEO LES MOONVES, has stepped in to help. CBS Radio filed a fraud and breach-of- contract lawsuit seeking more than $200 million from the radio host, his agent and his new employer, Sirius Satellite Radio. The suit says Stern spent his last 14 months at CBS talking up Sirius and hiding a deal to earn stock for boosting his new company's subscriber numbers. Stern calls the suit a "personal vendetta." On the upside, it will give him months...