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...when it purchased RCA Corp. While NBC currently boasts such comedy hits as Frasier and Seinfeld and has been reporting improved profits this year, the network continues to run third behind CBS and ABC in daytime and prime-time ratings. Among its many blunders under GE was letting David Letterman jump to CBS last year; Letterman regularly clobbers NBC's Tonight Show with Jay Leno in the ratings and has propelled CBS's entire late-night lineup into the No. 1 position, ahead...
...listening to her inner flak. First it told her she was going to have to do more than recite the guest book from Blair House. Now it's telling her to endure a promotional tour that would tax a stand-up comic pushing her new fall series. David Letterman went very easy on her, but she got testy when he didn't want to let her labor the point that George Bush (she always refers to him in the third person) had once worked in the private sector, unlike a certain President from Arkansas. Letterman said, "I think...
...carefully distinguishing some current notions of hip from the outcast's lucidity that was his vision of it all, he lets loose. "An upper-bourgeois life-style con. A camouflage for egocentricity and commercial theatrics." Propose it to a younger writer, Mark Leyner, who has had two appearances on Letterman and three smart-funny books (including Et Tu, Babe). He goes ugh. "We have allowed for a hipness that's produced in vitro. It has no basis, it's made from scratch...
...true that in the 1970s there were two very important unisex bands: Fleetwood Mac and the Partridge Family. But those were about the only coed bands around; now they are common. Even the house band on Late Show with David Letterman has added a female guitarist. The foundation of the recent trend was laid in the late '70s and early '80s by such rock heroines as Kim Gordon of Sonic Youth, Chrissie Hynde of the Pretenders and Tina Weymouth of the Talking Heads -- songwriters and instrumentalists all. Until they came along, a girl with an electric guitar seemed as incongruous...
...negatives in equal measure. CBS had become the first network to lead the ratings in daytime (with hot soap operas like The Young and the Restless), prime time (with aging but still potent shows like 60 Minutes and Murphy Brown) and late night (with the boffo debut of David Letterman). But its triumphs on the air were clouded by fiascos in the conference rooms. Losing the affiliates to Fox was only part of it. The Eye web had fumbled its rights to N.F.L. games, a CBS staple since 1956, and allowed Fox to pick them up. CBS also looked inept...