Word: networks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...those fabulous prizes, as host of the Pat Sajak Show, CBS's first late-night talk program in 17 years. Arsenio Hall, who co-starred with Eddie Murphy in the movie Coming to America, made his own TV splash as Joan Rivers' boyishly enthusiastic replacement on the Fox network's Late Show. This week he will rejoin the late-night fray on a permanent basis as host of the Arsenio Hall Show, syndicated on 135 stations...
Both programs are starting with healthy numbers. Sajak is being picked up by 90% of CBS affiliates, more than carry the network's current offerings. Hall's show also will reach 90% of the country with its lineup of independent stations. But producers and network executives are busily trying to lower expectations. "It's foolish to think you can knock off an institution like Carson just because you arrive on the scene," says CBS vice president Michael Brockman. Asserts Lucie Salhany, president of Paramount's domestic television division: "We're not out to get anybody. There's room...
...valuable computer programs and long-distance phone services. Prosecutors assert that it cost Digital $4 million to repair and upgrade its computer-security program after Mitnick's intrusion. He is believed to be the first person charged under a new federal law that prohibits breaking into an interstate computer network for criminal purposes...
Mitnick has apparently compiled a long history of computer capers. At 17 he used the phone system to enter Pacific Bell's computer network and steal electronically stored technical manuals, earning himself six months in a juvenile-detention facility followed by probation. Perhaps not coincidentally, the judge in the case later discovered that electronic files at a credit- information service had been mysteriously altered to downgrade the judge's credit rating. And a telephone belonging to a probation officer assigned to Mitnick's case was disconnected, although the phone company had no record of having done...
...telephone from a Santa Cruz, Calif., company. He got 36 months' probation for that crime, but the record of his offense has somehow vanished from police computers. Federal authorities suspect, although they have not proved, that he also planted a false and damaging story on an electronic financial-news network concerning a company that refused...