Word: formatting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Limbaugh's knack for being funny persuaded Ed McLaughlin, a former president of the ABC Radio Network, to make the talker a national star. "The thing I got immediately," McLaughlin says, "was his sense of humor in a traditionally nonhumorous format. He had all the elements: innate intelligence, a high curiosity and the desire to be a star." In 1988 McLaughlin made Limbaugh a partner in their enterprise and brought him to New York City's WABC, as a base for the so-called Excellence in Broadcasting Network -- a company that does not exist; Rush just thought the name sounded...
...Perot Thursday night, from which the Democrat emerged a clear winner. To some viewers, in fact, Bush seemed to adopt an almost elegiac tone, as if he knew he had lost and had decided to bow out with dignity -- though that may have been primarily a consequence of a format that brought the candidates in front of a quizzical audience demanding a sober discussion of issues...
...tone and format were altogether different in the Tuesday-night debate among running mates: a single moderator posed questions and let the candidates talk directly to one another. Vice President Dan Quayle and Clinton's No. 2, Al Gore, tore into each other with a zest that frequently left Perot's running mate, retired Vice Admiral James Stockdale, a tongue-tied bystander. Quayle was a far cry from the vacuous dolt so often portrayed. He mounted a sharply focused, though overly glib and often shrill, attack, repeatedly taunting Gore about "pulling a Clinton" -- that is, waffling. Gore, though...
...fact that conference delegates from both sides are now concentrating on issues rather than format--as they did during the first round of the talks, in Madrid--is "a major shift onto new tracks," Levy said...
...fill the TV void left by the quiz-show scandals of the late 1950s. How could the networks re-create those dramatic question-and-answer confrontations that had been so popular with the viewers? Finally, two years after the $64,000 Question was yanked off the air, the format resurfaced in 1960 in a new high-minded incarnation featuring the grandest prize of all -- a four-year lease on a pretentiously formal 18th century residence in Washington...