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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...earned a reputation as a programming wunderkind at CBS and then ABC earlier in the '70s, was also scalded by the boycott of the Moscow Olympics, which left him with $34 million worth of dead summer air. Moreover, there was turmoil at the top of NBC's parent corporation, RCA: three presidents and four chairmen within a decade. It was not until the fifth chairman, Thornton Bradshaw, hired Tinker to run NBC in July 1981 that hope and trust were restored to the network. Says Steven Bochco, whose Hill Street Blues had been spawned by Silverman and produced by Tinker...
...Baldly stated, the irony seems a tasteless contrivance: Son of Junk-Food Expert Slain ) at Burger Bonanza. But like Evelyn Waugh in A Handful of Dust and John Irving in The World According to Garp, Tyler uses the senseless loss of a child to refine feelings out of a parent's worst fears...
...bidding war ended with nary a drop of blood spilled. Gannett Co., the nation's sixth-largest media company (86 daily newspapers, including USA Today, six TV stations and 14 radio stations), agreed last week to buy the Evening News Association, the parent firm of the Detroit News, which has been controlled by the Scripps family for 112 years. Gannett offered $1,583 a share for a total of $717 million, beating out Washington Redskins Owner Jack Kent Cooke and Hollywood Producer Norman Lear. Besides the money-losing News (circ. 667,000), Gannett will acquire lucrative television stations in Washington...
...DIVAD cancellation will probably mean layoffs for many of the 1,900 workers at the Ford Aerospace plant in Newport Beach, Calif. Financial analysts expect the parent Ford Motor Co. to weather the loss of the contract. Meanwhile, the Army must search for a suitable replacement to take on the Sergeant York's intended air-defense duties. Said Weinberger: "A decision to cancel what is basically an ineffective system doesn't eliminate the need...
...enforced. Says Associate Superintendent Jerry Halverson: "There has been an agreement and understanding that children with AIDS would not be enrolled in school, predicated almost entirely on the welfare of the patient." In New York City, a special panel made up of health experts, an educator and a parent will decide before school starts whether each of seven children who have AIDS should be placed in classrooms...