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...with more than its share of bad days. Within the hour they faced a parade of hyperventilating talk-show hosts clutching the Constitution and handicapping the prospect of impeachment proceedings; of psychologists explaining how to tell children that the President might be a liar and a serial philanderer; of network anchors jetting back from Havana, where they had thought maybe the big story of the week would occur; and of Clinton explaining that yes, the American people had a right to hear an answer about whether he had seduced an employee, but no, he wasn't ready to give...
...That means the end of the monopoly of Network Solutions, the Virginia company with an exclusive contract on dot-coms (not to mention dot-orgs and dot-nets). The company's contract runs out at the end of March -- and though it?s expected to be extended for another six months, that is believed to be the last gasp of the domain-naming dinosaur...
...experience demonstrates that if having the NFL is expensive, not having it is even more so. After CBS lost football, several of its affiliates jumped ship, weakening the network's local-station base. And building a new series into a hit became more difficult because the networks use sports to flog their other shows endlessly. Without a football lead-in, 60 Minutes' audience share shrank from 30% to 22%. CBS eventually sank to third place. With football, the network, which owns stations in seven AFC markets, insisted it would break even by selling more...
...risk $4 billion to break even. But CBS, now No. 2 in the ratings, is in serious need of programming events, young viewers and more male viewers. Even if CBS takes a loss, football becomes part of an overall strategy to regain the top spot on the network heap. "This is a building block," says Neal Pilson, a sports-television consultant and former president of CBS Sports. "An expensive building block." If football can increase prime-time ratings by 1 point, "That could throw $50 million to the bottom line for a full season," says Pilson. For the stations, that...
REPLACED. FRANK GIFFORD, 67, co-host of ABC's Monday Night Football for the past 27 years; by BOOMER ESIASON, 36, the Cincinnati Bengals quarterback who quit the team last week to join the network...