Word: nbc
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...quite. Horowitz runs a lively, sometimes hectoring weekly half hour of consumer advocacy out of Los Angeles' KNBC, which is syndicated to 36 stations and takes a special delight in giving TV commercials the hotfoot. There are other raisers of consumer consciousness who are just as solid-NBC's Betty Furness, or 20/20's John Stossel-but none can quite match Horowitz's zealous show-biz savvy. Looking a little like the recording secretary of the Beverly Hills Jaycees, Horowitz gets cozy with his studio audience. He answers their questions; he invites them up at show...
...investigative reporter," says Horowitz, 43, a former NBC News correspondent. "Our show is basically the opposite end of what they do on Madison Avenue. Fewer and fewer people believe commercials-with good reason." The Tonka Toy Co. ran an ad that showed one of its toy trucks surviving a stomping by an elephant. Horowitz got his own Tonka and submitted it to pachyderm pummeling at the Los Angeles Zoo. When the vehicle was removed from the cage, it was crushed flatter than a shadow...
Hill Street Blues (NBC). Probing the soul of the inner-city cop with compassion and flipped-out wit, Hill Street won critical raves, eight Emmys and-finally!-enough viewers to make...
...SCTV (NBC). The funniest nights on television, with TV itself the target of repeated maulings by a company of six comic assassins. Their "Sammy Maudlin Show," an excursion into late-night chat and sleaze, has a kind of purgatorial hilarity, like a Friars' roast written by Sartre...
Steve Martin's Best Show Ever (NBC). A well-turned hour of live, zoned-out comedy, which featured everything from Belushi to Bartok and raised the question, "Did dinosaurs build Stonehenge...