Word: dann
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...even Maria Dann couldn't stop the thunder one unit last night...
...Nashville Network may avoid the identity problem that plagued the Entertainment Channel. Says Analyst Mike Dann: "It is as specialized as a news channel, a weather channel or a financial channel." Its theme is the world according to country. Its 18 hours of daily programming boast a cornucopia of country culture: 30 minutes of live music a night on Nashville After Hours; 1-40 Paradise, a country comedy set in a Tennessee truck stop; Dancin' U.S.A. (watch rhinestone cowboys do the "Cotton-Eyed Joe"); Fandango, a quiz program testing contestants on their knowledge of country trivia. Unlike MTV, which...
...boss, RCA Chairman Thornton Bradshaw, 63, refused to guarantee him a free hand. Fred's successor: Grant Tinker, 55, whose MTM Enterprises has produced such classy fare as Mary Tyler Moore, Rhoda, Lou Grant and NBC's own Hill Street Blues. Says TV Consultant Mike Dann: "Tinker has the best reputation in the industry. He's also the first network head in 30 years who's so handsome he could star in his own series." So the show is over. And the show will...
...hours. Sears, for example, could buy half an hour of air time to explain how to redecorate a porch, with Sears paint and Craftsman tools, of course. Ads comparing brand-name products, extolling the merits of one over the other, could be dealt with in laborious detail. Says Michael Dann, senior program adviser to ABC's Video Enterprises: "The advertiser who wants to spell out the differences between Phillips' Milk Of Magnesia and Pepto-Bismol is going to get a hell of a lot more time...
...real authority to three other presidents: Frank Stanton, Charles Ire land and Arthur Taylor, all of whom were well regarded for their managerial talents. Stanton was forced to retire, Ireland died after less than a year on the job, and Taylor was fired. Said former CBS Programming Chief Michael Dann last week: "The presidency of CBS is not known as the softess couch in town." But Wyman may have reread Yeats' "The Lake Isle of Innis-free": "And I shall have some peace there...