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...returned to school this past September to face its own financial troubles, the split between Salzmann's views and the staff's became problematic. Salzmann suggested scaling back the magazine's frequency of publication, using black and white instead of color on the pages, or changing the tabloid's format...
...tinker with the layout and the format but essentially the paper is going to remain generally the same," he said...
Michael Davies, the producer who brought Millionaire to America from Britain, says he may have only another two- or three-year run, but that the game-show format will always be popular. "The idea that television is being junked up is ridiculous," he says. "Compare this to all the crap sitcoms that have come on for the past 10 years." Davies argues, pretty convincingly, that his show, no matter how simple the questions may be, is more educational, dramatic and positive than the vast majority of programming. "I find it appalling every time a professor of television at Syracuse University...
...Challenge, in which those who had won $8,000 or more on Question could reappear. And then there was Twenty-One, which premiered on NBC Sept. 12, 1956. This program, chiefly the brainchild of producer Dan Enright, roughly adapted the rules of blackjack to a TV-quiz format: two contestants, two isolation booths, a series of questions worth from 1 to 11 points and drawn from 108 categories. Not only were these rules cutthroat; they were virtually impossible. No one would watch a show featuring two people being baffled by question after question. Faced with a choice between boring reality...
...format of the meet was somewhat different than the usual arrangement of events. The two teams competed the "long format," which means longer events such as the mile, the 400 individual medley, and the 200 strokes (butterfly, backstroke, and breastroke)--instead of 100 meters--are swum...