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Diller's first task is to redesign the on-air look and schedule of QVC, which is currently seen in 45 million homes. (A second QVC-owned service, the Fashion Channel, is seen in 10.5 million.) "If you're looking for sweaters," he says, "you need to be able to find sweaters." He wants to upgrade the product line -- more high-end electronics, less cubic zirconium -- and eventually to introduce self-contained programs. He has been contacted by everyone from top designers like Donna Karan and Calvin Klein to Roseanne Barr (who wants to market a line of large-size...
DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN RON Brown was beaming as he bounced into the CNN Washington bureau (where I work part time). And rightly so. It was midafternoon on Election Day, and exit polls showed that Bill Clinton was going to win big. But before going on-air, Brown sobered up. "I'd better not seem too happy," he said. "The polls are still open." Brown soon appeared on TV screens around the world expressing cautious optimism to an interviewer who knew as well as Brown did that the result was a foregone conclusion...
...upbeat. After three years of soap-opera travails and ratings woes, NBC's morning show has almost miraculously righted itself. Katie Couric, who became co-anchor a year ago, has managed to make people forget the short, unhappy tenure of Deborah Norville. Bryant Gumbel, the show's sometimes testy on-air leader for the past decade, is smiling more. And the audience is filing back into the auditorium. Though Good Morning America retains a narrow lead in the ratings, Today scored a weekly win last month for the first time in more than two years...
Officials of WHRB are planning increased security after members of a Cambridge rap group--one of whom was carrying a baseball bat--entered the station's studios seeking out an on-air personality...
Some of the Cable News Network's most familiar faces are fading from the screen. Last summer CNN owner Ted Turner hired former Los Angeles Times chairman Tom Johnson to shake things up. After leaving the network's on-air team alone during the gulf war, Johnson has started to do just that. Longtime anchor Mary Anne Loughlin was dismissed; veteran anchors Don Miller and Patrick Emory have not had their contracts renewed. "Johnson wants younger people who are not in the 'Ted Baxter' mode of broadcasting," says a CNN source. Turner will pay his replacements much lower salaries...