Word: dial
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Quite apart from its racy reputation, the show proved surprisingly appealing to female viewers, who are said to control the dial after the children go to sleep. Women saw what they were traditionally supposed to be interested in: new clothes (usually trousers), hairdos, makeup. The producers spent nearly $20,000 every week for eight costume changes per Angel per show. Says Spelling: "We hired a designer and gave each girl her own look. As soon as a new fashion was out, such as thigh-high suede boots, we made sure Farrah and Jackie were wearing it. And Farrah...
...White House and directly across the street from Secret Service headquarters. It often houses visiting Secret Service agents. The cheapest room is $42 a night, moderate by Washington standards. Hinckley sat for hours in Room 312. He made two local telephone calls, using the hotel's direct-dial system...
...such money-making scheme almost mandatory. Even before the election. PBS and local stations had been looking for new funds. PBS now makes $1 million a year by renting out time on its transmitting satellite; five local stations hope to make money soon on their new program magazine, the Dial, which has won all challenges to its nonprofit status. Chicago's WTTW is already making more than $300,000 a year on one of its subsidiaries, Chicago magazine. In addition, stations are leasing studio space to private producers, selling video cassettes of popular shows and pushing sales to foreign...
Susan McEnany, business office manager for the Cambridge branch of New England Telephone Co., yesterday described the problem as "Intermittent dial-tones," Company officials have not yet determined the eause, she added...
...year-old AM station, 740 on the dial, bills itself as an "alternative" radio outlet. Specializing in folk and acoustic music, it is the non-University radio station in the city