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...Every party involved is getting piles of PR mileage: Even MTV's Tom Freston couldn't help using the name of one of his network's TV shows when saying how shocked (shocked!) he was. Meanwhile, outrage fetishists nationwide get their fix. This is a no-fault car accident. Everyone wins (except the teams that actually played a great game). On the other hand, what's more disturbing: Jackson's not-entirely-unpleasant appendage, or Mike Ditka talking about his erection during the commercials? Sean Carolan Freehold...
...rivals are already sniping at each other. "We think our format takes better advantage of the strength of comedy than just a clip channel," says Tom Freston, head of MTV Networks. "Comedy has traditionally been character driven and story driven. It takes time to work." HBO executives snicker. "Why should their channel succeed in doing original long-form comedy?" says Fuchs. "The three networks spend hundreds of millions of dollars trying to do original comedy, and one show succeeds every two years...
...available in 20.8 million homes). The channel's format has been diversified with more live programming, sitcoms (reruns of The Monkees and a British import called The Young Ones) and nonmusic inserts, like a series of reports on rock groupies. "We have changed directions," says MTV Entertainment President Tom Freston, successor to MTV Founder Robert Pittman, who left last fall to start his own media company, "from focusing on music alone to including life-style, the way people look, feel, dress. The challenge is to maintain freshness...
Appointments: Lyman Gorham Smith '92, as Assistant in Chemistry; Frank Silver MacGregor '18, as Assistant in Chemistry; Ralph Freston Wentworth 2L, as Assistant in Meteorology; Roger Douglas Harvey '15, as Assistant in Geology; Robert Chenault Givler, A.M. '13, as Assistant in Psychology; Frank Andrew Hamilton, M.D. '06, as Assistant in Anatomy...
...Stuart McIntyre '98, Bowditch; John Albert Macy '99, Bowditch; Frederic William Morrison 1900, bowditch; William Donaldson Murray '99, Farrar; Albert Hitchings Newhall '98, Bowditch; Carl Shepard Oakman 1900, Bigelow; John Alvin Lawson Odde '98, George Emerson Lowell; Laurence Henry Parkhurst '98, Pennoyer; Starr McGregor Pierce '98, Bassett; Carleton Estey Freston 1900, William Whiting; Henry Latimer Seaver 1900, Bigelow; Clarence James Smerdon '99, Burr; Vine Harold Smith '98, Hodges; Arthur Cushing Spalding '99, Warren H. Cudworth; Eric Arthur Starbuck '98, Saltonstall; Chester Odiorne Swain 1900, George Emerson Lowell; Charles Marshall Underwood 1900, Bowditch; Donald Fraser Urquhart '99, William Samuel Eliot; Walter...