Word: cnn
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...next week by NBC, is causing plenty of stir. The channel will compete directly with cable's chief business-news outlet, the Financial News Network (FNN). But some in the cable industry believe that CNBC has a much bigger rival in its sights: Ted Turner's cable news giant, CNN...
...lineup opened last month when Diane Sawyer left to join the burgeoning Murderers' Row at ABC. Meanwhile, NBC, looking to compensate for Chung's departure, found no superstars on the trading block but managed to land a solid .280 hitter, Mary Alice Williams, formerly of CNN. All three are expected to have high-profile starting berths by the summer...
...what Sawyer is said to be getting from ABC for leaving her post at CBS's top-rated magazine show, 60 Minutes. That puts both of them behind only Barbara Walters (more than $2 million) as the highest-paid women in TV news. Even Williams, coming from low-paying CNN, will ring up a respectable $500,000 or so annually at NBC. "We are watching a profound shift in the way networks function," says Marvin Kalb, the former CBS and NBC correspondent who now teaches at Harvard. "It is similar to what is happening in professional baseball or basketball. Journalists...
...pair have recounted their exploits on The Today Show and on Cable News Network (CNN). In each appearance, they have criticized ETS for having inadequate security measures during some standardized tests...
Like the incoming Bush Cabinet, the new White House press corps has many familiar faces. Lesley Stahl, who covered Reagan's first term for CBS News, is returning. So are veteran Reagan watchers for ABC, NBC, CNN, the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times and Boston Globe. Yet White House reporters old and new take up their posts at a time when the beat, though still one of journalism's most prestigious, has lost some of its luster after eight years of obsessive news management by the Reagan Administration. "Like the peso, it's been devalued," admits...