Word: kleine
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...scoring is arbitrary, and the pawns are prime-time programs. Top network executives claim to have outgrown the game and have tried to call it off, but two of the all-time great competitors-CBS Senior Programming Vice President Michael Dann and NBC Audience Measurement Vice President Paul Klein-somehow did not give up the fight. The fascination lies not in who wins or loses but in how hysterically they play...
...Dann felt compelled to phone NBC President Julian Goodman at his home. Flabbergasted at hearing from a CBS official a couple of echelons below him, Goodman first figured that Dann had been fired and was job-hunting. Dann was, in fact, on the line to ask Goodman to stop Klein & Co. from planting newspaper items knocking Dann's efforts to "improve television." Well aware that Dann was a past master at using the press in the rating game, Goodman had no sympathy. "Mike," he said, "you've created a monster, and now it's biting your...
...Scum!" Mike Dann, 48, is a feisty, loquacious virtuoso of survival who has risen steadily through 14 presidents and two networks. Paul Klein, 41, is an irreverent disciple of Marshall McLuhan who is convinced he is brighter than his NBC bosses and not afraid to say so. Oddly enough, the rival vice presidents have never met, but they exchange terse little notes with endearments like "You are scum...
...option is coming due shortly," it began. It wound up: "And how you promote Cinderella will tell me something about your personal feelings toward me." In the end, by CBS figures, CBS was first again, by a slivery 20.3% to NBC's 20.0% (and ABC's 15.6%).* Klein argued that the tabulation ignored NBC's premiere week, and that actually the two networks finished in a dead heat...
...meeting of Everett Mendelschn's larger Harvard student-Faculty delegation-the Peace Action Strike-at the Cleveland Park Congregational Church that evening. So the professors washed up, took their messages (Max Frankel of the New York Times for Yarmolinsky; National Educational Television, which wanted Schelling to debate Herb Klein on T. V. about the strategic implications of the invasion), and rushed down to dinner as Bator reserved a cab to take them to the airport. A sign in the elevator warned guests that all the hotel's vital functions would be shut down and guards placed at every door...