Word: dial
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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WHERE: ALL OVER THE DIAL...
...BOTTOM LINE: Touch that dial! Three new summer shows could drive you back to those boring old reruns...
...POLITICS: Dial D for Democracy...
...strategy is at least partly born of necessity. On the overcrowded TV dial, establishing new hits has become increasingly difficult -- and expensive. It is cheaper to try to build a following for an existing show than to start from scratch with a new one. Despite their unfashionable demographics, most of the oldies cast aside by NBC were picked up by other networks: Golden Girls (redubbed The Golden Palace) and In the Heat of the Night by CBS, and Matlock by ABC. "The main thing that guides the network schedules nowadays is the bottom line," says Joel Segal, an executive vice...
...Leimbach's second novel, Sun Dial Street, is an affecting, amusing and unpredictable blend of characters and events that ring true in the minds of readers when they enter the realm of the chaotic Haskell family. This book marks an achievement for this young author, and if this is just the chrysalis, you had better be prepared for some fascinating future attempts...