Word: mel
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Said Mel Blumenthal, executive vice president of MTM: "Independent producers will become little more than robots responding to the whims of networks." Without being able to anticipate full revenues from syndication, producers argued, they would have no incentive to swallow losses on offbeat new shows. The award-winning Hill Street Blues, for example, is supplied to NBC by MTM at a loss of $ 1.43 million a year...
...Farris, who volunteered to work for King for the day, said she thought the mix the size of the crowd would make people" stop saying that Mel King...
...crowd, which grew to more than 1500 through the course of the afternoon, including many whites, as well as a smattering of socialist and communist workers. The rally, which took on a carnival atmosphere, featured many colorful Mel King balloons, as well as dozens of banners proclaiming everything from "Gays and Lesbians for Mel King" to "Bald is Beautiful--Vote for Mel King...
King and Washington's arrival was greeted with raucous chants of "Mel King Mel King and prompted the most demonstrative reaction by King of the day. Smiling broadly. King and Washington raised their hands together in a victory salute before the partisan crowd in King's home base...
...Mark Johnson, a spokesman for candidate Lawrence S. DiCara '71, said that King will not be as successful as Washington because he is "more of a protest leader, more of an ideologue. We don't expect Mel King to do much better than half [of the Black vote...