Word: networking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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More than once in his 23 years as a researcher, producer, vice president and finally president of CBS News, Howard Stringer must have cursed the network's top brass. With one eye on the ratings and another on the bottom line, they have too often canceled a news program before it had a chance to catch on. Now Stringer will have no one to blame but himself. Last week, in a dramatic realignment of CBS management, Chief Executive Laurence Tisch elevated Stringer, 46, to the presidency of the CBS Broadcast Group. Though he has no direct experience in entertainment programming...
...first time in the network's history, an outsider will take over as news president: David Burke, executive vice president at ABC News. Outgoing Broadcast Group President Gene Jankowski will assume the less taxing post of broadcast chairman. Said Tisch: "This is a start...
...ebullient leader, Stringer says that, among other things, he hopes to mend fences with Hollywood's TV producers, many of whom have become disenchanted with CBS. "I want to make this a place where we can talk about ideas, new ways of doing things," he says. Given the network's unprecedented third-place finish in last season's prime-time ratings race, he is going to need all the good ideas he can muster...
...1970s Mao Zedong ordered the urban populations of northern China to "dig tunnels deep and store grain everywhere" in preparation for Soviet nuclear strikes. Now the vast network of tunnels beneath the streets of Harbin is being converted into a subway. Other shelters are already serving as underground hotels and shopping centers. In the meantime, citizens of Khabarovsk pour hot water for their tea not only from traditional Russian samovars but also from colorfully decorated thermos bottles imported from China. Plans are under way for a Chinese restaurant, staffed and supplied from across the river, to open later this year...
...backbone of the system is a vast temporary network connecting 9,000 telephones and 250 computers. To handle the torrent of news and messages passing among the machines, the Democrats laid down 23 miles of fiber-optic cable, each strand of which can simultaneously carry thousands of digital signals. The flow of information will be managed by software from Novell, a Utah-based firm that specializes in getting machines of different makes to work together...