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...summer of 1993 Jamie Kellner was sitting around his house in Santa Barbara, Calif., bored out of his mind. For eight years he had served as president of the Fox network, which he had helped create. Exhausted, he had retired. "But after six months," he says, "I was very unhappy." He noticed that some of his former colleagues were leaving Fox, and he knew that Fox was trying to broaden its audience, no longer concentrating on young people. So Kellner had a realization: he ought to get his old team back together and start Fox all over again...
...Alex Mack) but rather with repeats of its weekday cartoons like the clever Rugrats, as well as reruns of older Saturday-morning shows that were canceled by the major networks years ago. "When Nickelodeon is able to beat broadcast networks with repeats of Muppet Babies and Beetlejuice," notes Jamie Kellner. head of the WB, "it suggests the matter goes far beyond programming...
...wives. In the first episode we find him groping a female colleague after a night of drunken carousing. His view of women is hardly modern, and neither is the writers'. For instance, Marsh has little tolerance for the mishaps of another female colleague, Gayle Van Camp (Catherine Kellner), who is so desperate to be one of the boys that she seems teleported from a pre--Cagney & Lacey universe. Her greatest trauma in life, we learn, is that she failed the physical-strength test that would have made her a Marine...
...some risk of dying of old age (it began in March 1991) needs more stimulus than the Fed is giving it. Or so say many economists. Last week's tweak is "too little, too late," argues Allan Meltzer, professor of political economy at Carnegie-Mellon University. Says Irwin Kellner, chief economist of Chemical Bank: "A quarter point will help a wee bit, but it's going to take more than that to get this economy going." One signpost: house sales lately have been flat, despite a drop in mortgage rates...
...going to be very difficult for both of us," concedes Lucie Salhany, president of Paramount's UPN. "Can both survive and grow? I don't know." Jamie Kellner, chief of WB, argues that it is hit shows that count. "This is a business that's all in the programming and the promotion," he says. "If you make good programs and promote them properly, people will beat your door down." But executives for the other networks downplay any threat posed by the Warner and Paramount ventures, describing them not as networks but as enhanced versions of the syndication outfits that distribute...