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...woman, but most of the successors floated--Anderson Cooper, Scott Pelley, Harry Smith--are white men. (Diane Sawyer is a possibility, but that would mean going the celebrity-morning-show-host route again.) And CBS executives have speculated that viewers were not "ready" for a woman--maybe because network chiefs believe it, maybe because it's easier to blame society than themselves (while casting themselves as brave pioneers...
...personalities were women (Couric, Nancy Grace and Barbara Walters), while only one was among the six most liked--Couric, at No. 6. (No African Americans were listed as disliked--because there were no African Americans in the poll, period.) But Couric is the only woman to solo-anchor a network evening newscast. To say that no woman can succeed at 6:30 because Couric couldn't would be as facile as saying that no woman can become President if Hillary...
...show is a big gamble for the American pay-cable network, best known for hits like The Sopranos and Sex and the City, but HBO executives are confident their venture into the Mexican TV market will pay off. "There are millions of viewers across Latin America screaming out for shows with more quality and realism," said Miguel Angel Oliva, Vice President of Corporate Affairs at HBO Latin America. "And from Tijuana down to Patagonia, there is an immense talent among actors, directors and writers dying to make them...
...realizing potential in emerging markets doesn't come cheap. Picking up new subscribers in low-penetration markets like Pakistan means beefing up network capacity and extending coverage into new, often rural, areas. Groundwork like that established across Pakistan and Bangladesh has already cost Telenor some $3 billion in the last three years, according to Handelsbanken. So while "we invest, and grab as much revenue as possible," says Telenor Pakistan's Johnsen, "we can't imagine that we will recover our initial investment any time soon." Powerful companies like China Mobile have recently joined Telenor in Pakistan, and Egypt's Orascom...
Ironically, Sheehan said that her co-workers at Goldman recommended that she skip business school because of the great network available to Harvard undergraduates...