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Observers question that stance, pointing out that the U.S. leads industrialized countries with an estimated 1.1 million pregnancies each year for girls ages 15 to 19. Public health officials in Tennessee and Georgia want stations to run the spot, but few outlets other than the Cable News Network have agreed to give it time. The networks' position is questionable, critics argue, because daytime soaps and prime-time series like Dynasty routinely glamourize sex without suggesting its risks. Says Jeanne Rosoff, president of the Alan Guttmacher Institute, a nonprofit research center: "Network program content is explicit to the point where...
Even the harshest in-house critics cannot argue with the numbers: the CBS Evening News remains the highest-rated of the three network shows. And if the network's star attraction, Dan Rather, is unhappy with management (as some insiders contend), he says only nice things about his bosses in public and obviously approves of how the Evening News has evolved. To a certain degree, all three networks' news divisions are victims of success. Once revenue losers, they started to make big money within the past decade and thus began to be treated more like businesses. Profits, for better...
...have their feet firmly on the corporate ladder and are eager to advance upward. Though both spent much of their careers as journalists (Sauter worked as a newspaperman for nine years, while Joyce began as a radio reporter), they made their reputations in management positions. Sauter served as the network's chief censor and head of the sports division before becoming president of CBS News in 1982, while Joyce served as general manager of several CBS-owned television stations. When Sauter moved to his present post in 1983, Joyce took over as president...
...have a Nightline, we don't have a morning news show that goes to Moscow [as NBC's Today did last year]," says a CBS correspondent. Few changes gall staffers as much as the fate of the CBS Morning News, the perennial also-ran among the three network breakfast programs but the one that presented the most substantive news. To boost ratings, Sauter approved the hiring of Phyllis George, the former Miss America whose flubs finally led to her ouster in August. Though the program now is steered by the competent Forrest Sawyer and Maria Shriver, it is a pale...
...another new technology is changing the face of radio. The advent of communications satellites has enabled programs to be distributed more easily and more cheaply than ever before. At least 23 national radio networks are currently in existence, compared with just four in 1968 and nine in 1974. Though music, news and sports constitute the bulk of network fare, the radio dial is increasingly filling up with daily, weekly or monthly "longform" programming, from music/variety series like NBC's Live from the Hard Rock Café (with Host Paul Shaffer of TV's Late Night with David Letterman) to national talk/call-in...