Word: network
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...made do with two paid staff members, getting his message across with radio rather than costly TV. Unz's opponents have spent $3.2 million to date, including $800,000 from teachers' unions and $1.5 million from A. Jerrold Perenchio, CEO of Univision, the nation's largest Spanish-language network, which has aired editorials four times a day to stymie...
EASED ASIDE. ROONE ARLEDGE, 66, ABC's visionary producer who, after inventing modern sports coverage for the network, reinvented its news division; in New York City. Though he will remain chairman of ABC News, control will be wielded by 45-year-old David Westin...
...didn't last long, but within a few months, Henson was back on TV, puppeteering for another station, the local NBC affiliate. Soon he had his own five-minute program, called Sam and Friends. It aired live twice a day, once before the network news with Chet Huntley and David Brinkley and later preceding the Tonight show, which at that time starred Steve Allen. Remaining in college, where he studied art and theater design, Henson produced Sam and Friends for six years. Assisting him was a fellow student named Jane Nebel, whom he married...
...despite the Muppets' success on Sesame Street and their demonstrated appeal to adults as well as children, no U.S. network would give Henson a show of his own. It was a British producer, Lew Grade, who finally offered Henson the financing that enabled him to mount The Muppet Show. The program ran in syndication from 1976 until 1981, when Henson decided to end it lest its quality begin to decline. At its peak it was watched each week by 235 million viewers around the world. Stars from Steve Martin to Rudolf Nureyev appeared as guest hosts, and the show launched...
...ingenious TV series Jim Henson's The Storyteller. Then in 1990, at age 53, Henson suddenly died after contracting an extremely aggressive form of pneumonia. He remains a powerful presence, though, on account of Sesame Street and the Henson Co., whose next venture will be a global family-entertainment network called the Kermit Channel. Because the works we encounter as children are so potent, Henson may influence the next century as much as this one, as his viewers grow up carrying his vision within them...