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...industry sources think it will, very few imitators can expect to gain the same instant acceptance. Much of that was obtained by close attention to programming-sensible scheduling against the competition and sharp promotion. In these areas even his competitors agree that Fred Silverman is a master. Says Mike Dann, former CBS program chief: "He is compulsive about spots and ads. You can add 15 to 20 share points to a show by good promotion." Silverman is no less punctilious about the refinements of scheduling. Says Dann: "Before I saw Charlie's Angels, I knew it could...
King's Wrath. Another apparent irritant to Paley came in 1973 when Taylor hired an International Paper executive, presumably to fill his shoes when he stepped into Paley's. Says former CBS Programming Chief Michael Dann: "There is no such thing as power politics at CBS. Power rests with the throne and Mr. Paley is the king." Adds Dann: "When the old man gets mad, he gets mad. And when he gets mad, he lets go his wrath." A board member puts it another way: "CBS is the house that Paley built, and he simply didn...
...never thought I'd hear the words 'an ABC night' " marvels TV Consultant Mike Dann, who was chief programming strategist, first for NBC, then for CBS, from 1948 to 1970. To the viewer, ABC "nights"-meaning in TV jargon the nights the network swamps the ratings-are not much different from the other networks' fare. ABC's top shows are only too familiar comedies such as Happy Days and its offspring Laverne and Shirley, sci-fi fantasies like The Six Million Dollar Man, from whose stainless-steel rib was cloned the Bionic Woman...
...enrich the fund, Revell Inc. has started to make a series of plastic model kits of endangered animals such as the white rhinoceros and the California condor; each kit contains a leaflet describing the plight of the animal and the fund's efforts to help. Says Christopher Dann, the fund's deputy director: "Besides paying us a royalty, Revell is allowing us to start a dialogue with 800,000 children and to build a constituency for the future...
...Instead, Dann suggests, British parents should teach their children that getting high grades and winning prizes are not the most important things in life. He also criticizes doctors who prescribe tranquilizers and sedatives for children, and urges them to speak out against the cruelty of overcompetitiveness. "We know you can teach a baby to swim before it can walk," he adds, "but what on earth for?" One Oxford don adjudged the current crop from English prep schools to be "all burnt out" by the time they get to the university. Laments Dann: "How bitter it must be to have shot...