Word: gannett
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...cover story" of four minutes or so, the pieces will be brief and numerous (about 35 a half-hour). This broadcast spin-off of "McPaper" -- McRather, perhaps? -- has impressive parentage: it comes from GTG Entertainment, the new company headed by ex-NBC Chairman Grant Tinker (in partnership with Gannett, USA Today's publisher), and is being produced by Steve Friedman, the respected former executive producer of NBC's Today show...
...covering 84% of the country, have bought it thus far, and most plan to air it in the lucrative hour just before prime time, when game shows like Wheel of Fortune predominate. What bothers network news executives, however, is the decision by Washington's WUSA-TV (also owned by Gannett) to push the CBS Evening News up by 30 minutes to make room for it. New York City's WCBS-TV is expected to make the same move. These stations can keep more of the ad revenues with a syndicated show in that time slot than with a network program...
...nation's bitterest newspaper wars. All-out efforts by the afternoon News and the morning Free Press to beat each other into submission cost millions and kept newsstand prices and advertising rates at rock bottom. Then two years ago both papers agreed to an odd sort of truce. Gannett Co., owner of the News, and Knight-Ridder Inc., owner of the Free Press, decided to take advantage of a federal law designed to preserve the editorial voice of a dying newspaper by allowing it to combine its business operations with a healthy competitor. They thus joined forces in applying...
...while Chapman is pleading near bankruptcy, one of his own memos (to Gannett Chairman Al Neuharth) included in Needelman's report makes a strong case that the Free Press should receive an equal share of the J.O.A.'s future earnings. "The Detroit Free Press is a well managed newspaper with a loyal readership base and a proven and continuing capacity to expand its reach," Chapman wrote, before listing several favorable statistics not usually associated with failing newspapers...
...woman, whose name has not been released, was treated and released from Cornell's Gannett Health Center. "She has been receiving counseling and medical assistance," said university spokesman David Stewart...