Word: kagan
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Media mavens were quick to applaud the mix of CBS and the tough, widely respected Diller. "He's probably the one executive," says analyst Larry Gerbrandt of Paul Kagan Associates, "that just about everybody in the industry would salute." Diller, a high-profile schmoozer to whom networking is both a pleasure and a job description, was quickly at ease in the company he hopes will be his big new home. The day the deal was announced, he called Evening News co-anchor Dan Rather for a chat and was escorted around the network's New York City broadcast center...
...deal does hold, most industry analysts see it as a smart move toward the future by CBS, a conservative outfit with a maturing lineup of shows in that old fogey of the video market, network television. "Diller will create synergy," says Bishop Cheen, a Kagan analyst, "by wearing three hats. Number one, the network hat, and there's he's a Hall of Famer. Two, the programming hat: he will create good and cheap programming. And third, merchandiser -- a hat that has never been worn at CBS with any great authority. He'll merge two favorite American pastimes: shopping...
...five year program is only open to a few students with "exceptional" instrumental or choral ability, says Mark Kagan, music department administrator...
...other technology associated with the infohighway.) In reality, it is likely to set off a game of affiliate musical chairs that will further erode traditional network viewing patterns. "The once sacrosanct relationship between networks and affiliates has started to come unglued," says Bishop Cheen, a senior analyst for Paul Kagan Associates, a media research firm, "and I don't know if it can ever be put back together...
...teach it no differently than I would introductory psychology," says Starch Professor of Psychology Jerome Kagan of his Social Analysis 42 class...