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...says. "If you make good programs and promote them properly, people will beat your door down." But executives for the other networks downplay any threat posed by the Warner and Paramount ventures, describing them not as networks but as enhanced versions of the syndication outfits that distribute shows like Oprah, Wheel of Fortune and Baywatch to local stations. "What they're about is the evolution of syndication," says Neil Braun, president of the NBC television network. "What Paramount and Warner have done -- wisely, I think -- is to go out and try to tie up time periods first rather than sell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: Network Crazy! | 1/16/1995 | See Source »

...death penalty, while Putting Families First focuses on such matters as pornography and premarital sexual abstinence. Arianna Huffington, the author and wife of Michael, the failed senatorial candidate from California, hosts Critical Mass, another talk show focusing on social issues. And NET even serves up its own Oprah in the form of Judie Brown, whose show Celebrate Life is described by the network as sharing with viewers the "inspiring stories of people who have overcome tremendous obstacles in their lives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Network That Newt Built | 1/9/1995 | See Source »

...woman most admired by Americans, a CNN/USA Today poll of 1,016 American finds. The second most admired man is another controversial Democrat and lately a successful international peace maker: former President Jimmy Carter. Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, former first lady Barbara Bush and talk show host Oprah Winfrey occupy third, fourth, and fifth place as the people Americans admire most...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CLINTON . . . LOVES ME, LOVES ME NOT | 12/28/1994 | See Source »

...anchor for the CBS Evening News in 1981 and has remained in the job, solo or accompanied, ever since. Another television journalist, Barbara Walters, then 43, also made the 1974 list. TIME called her "TV's first lady of talk," and if she has ceded that title to Oprah Winfrey, she remains an institution -- TV's first first lady of talk. Jann Wenner's name appears two places below Walters'; the 28-year old founder of Rolling Stone was then known to his staff as "Citizen Wenner," we reported. That year his publishing interests grossed $6 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LEADERSHIP: Where Are They Now? | 12/5/1994 | See Source »

...OPRAH WINFREY...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Winners & Losers: Nov. 7, 1994 | 11/7/1994 | See Source »

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