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...elebi reportedly was acting as middleman for Çelenk, and may have been either simply renewing his fellow Turk's offer or actually paying Agca the money. Some time in late April or early May, according to Swiss and German wiretaps cited in a television documentary broadcast by NBC last week, Agca, staying in Majorca, telephoned Çelebi in Frankfurt. The gunman reportedly said, "I have received the sum we agreed. I'll go to Rome to carry it out." Agca allegedly then called another Turk, Omer Bagci, a restaurant worker in a Zurich suburb, and instructed...
...quarry, the more than 100 million people who ordinarily hover in front of the screen during prime time in this peak viewing month, will swim way from this costly bait? "hat they may be lured instead by Dallas or Magnum, P.I. on CBS, or Hill Street Blues on NBC? That they may (dire thought) turn to cable or flip on a video game? Or just decide to read Jane Austen? Of course it is. The bottom of the rating charts is Uttered with such failed mini-series as King, The French Atlantic Affair, MacArthur and Beggarman Thief. "Obviously The Winds...
...riot of options for the home viewer and a daunting challenge for the three commercial networks. Since the late 1940s, the networks have held a virtual monopoly on the viewer's prime time. Now that hammer lock may be breaking. In the next few years ABC, CBS and NBC will be vying-with one another and with some increasingly confident adversaries-for the lion's share of $16.7 billion and more in annual advertising revenue...
...game show gave NBC the chance to give its audience an in-depth look at every aspect of the players' lives. I think I know Joe Theisman better than I know my own sister, thanks to features like this...
...invited by WBZ, the Boston NBC affiliate, to preside over a children's show called Hot Hero Sandwich. That lasted only 13 weeks, but then PBS offered him a talk show in which he interviewed ordinary people about their health and emotional problems. Last September he was signed by Metromedia for a commercial program. Cottle is acutely sensitive to criticism that he has sold out. Says he: "For years I wrote serious books and got no attention. Now that I'm on television, everyone wants to take a crack...