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...devoting its hour to one subject, the program offered a blend of serious stories and light features. Instructive and entertaining at the same time, it climbed its way into television's Top Ten shows, earning several hundred million dollars in profits and destroying the dictum that TV news cannot draw viewers and money. Its name, of course, is 60 Minutes...
...under 40) have led some at CBS to dub the show Yupdoc (short for yuppie documentary). Though the slickness, so far at least, has not triumphed over the substance, the glossy style could blind some viewers to the journalism. On the other hand, the approach is sure to draw people who might otherwise not watch a newsmagazine show. "We may use some of the same technical tools that Miami Vice does," says Lack. "But there is no blurring of the line between reality and fiction. The cops on our show will not be wearing Armani jackets or driving Ferraris...
...Turner grinned at reporters at New York's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, TBS Executive Vice President Robert Wussler clasped hands with Soviet sports officials in Moscow. Turner said that TBS and the Soviets would co-produce and broadcast the Goodwill Games from Moscow next July. The games are expected to draw top athletes from around the world for 160 events, and will be repeated, Olympics-style, every four years if they are successful. In 1990 they would be in the U.S. TBS will provide equipment and transportation to Moscow for the American athletes, while the U.S.S.R. will pick up expenses...
...argue, with some justification, that the prices they paid to get into the game reflected their lucrative market potential. Nonetheless, in the bidding wars that are a fixture of baseball in the '80s, the wealthier owners can simply buy the better players. Since winning is the best way to draw fans to the park and sponsors to TV and radio, the poor just get poorer. The Cleveland Indians, for example, have managed to hold salaries down to less than half the league average, but they also are 34 games out of first place...
...best to start thinking about those features when you first sit down to draw up plans for your new dream home. You'll save yourself plenty of cash if you widen the hallway in the blueprint phase rather than after the house has been built. "It costs $6 a door extra to put in a wider, 36-in. door in new construction, but if you remodel, it costs $650 per door," says Susan Mack, a universal-design consultant in Murietta, Calif...