Word: nbc
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...action stemmed from a fear that without such restrictions, ABC, CBS and NBC would gain virtual monopoly control over the business of supplying programs. Now, however, the FCC noted, the markets for programs have altered drastically. Independent stations and emerging cable-television and videocassette operations have taken a growing share of the TV audience away from the networks. Hence the networks' potential monopoly may not exist. The networks, under the ruling, would be allowed to finance and own up to 100% of new shows...
...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...
...Best Supporting Actor in 1982, and he was Charles Ryder's comically aloof father in TV's Brideshead Revisited. But he was also, to give only a partial list, the anti-Semitic Cambridge don in Chariots of Fire, Lord Irwin in Gandhi, a doge of Venice in NBC's Marco Polo, Albert Speer's father in ABC's Inside the Third Reich, Pope Pius XII in CBS's The Scarlet and the Black, a crooked art dealer in Sphinx, a German scientist in The Formula, and the British censor who prosecuted D.H. Lawrence...
...list of participants, now being finalized includes current and past chairmen of the Democratic and Republican an National Committees; the heads of the Federal Communication Commission and the Federal Election Commission, president of the League of Women Voters top officials of ABC, CBS and NBC News several Congressional leaders from both parties leading political pollsters and scientists and prominent syndicated columnists including David Border and Elizabeth Drew...
DIED. Raymond Massey, 86, gaunt, lanky, Canadian-born stage and screen actor remembered by a generation for his award-winning portrayals of Abraham Lincoln; of complications from pneumonia; in Los Angeles. Later audiences knew him best as the crusty but warmhearted Dr. Gillespie in NBC's Dr. Kildare TV series (with Richard Chamberlain in the title role...