Word: pasts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There was just cause for Franklin's exultation. Only three months past his apprenticeship, he was a risky choice for the most famous stakes race. Although managing to win, Franklin had ridden Spectacular Bid so erratically in the Florida Derby that Delp chewed him out in public. "You idiot!" Delp screamed. "You nearly killed that horse...
...Show before his contract runs out in April 1981. An embezzlement scandal was boiling, affiliate stations were restless and gossip was rampant. Parent Company RCA laid it all on the bottom line at its annual meeting last Tuesday. Referring to "the very low ratings of NBC programs over the past month to month and a half," RCA President and Chief Executive Edgar H. Griffiths reversed a more optimistic earlier estimate and declared: "Profit for NBC will be substantially below that of the prior year...
...season unless ratings are on the upswing. By then, Fred Silverman, 41, NBC's $1 million-a-year president, will have had ample opportunity to work his programming magic, if he has any left. For Silverman, who made his reputation at CBS and ABC, the task is formidable. Past NBC programmers failed to foresee the impact that the post-World War II baby boom would have on the industry. When the network belatedly went after the youth market in 1974, it managed to alienate a goodly portion of its once loyal older audience. Subsequent programming regimes sacrificed long-term...
...competition for breakfast. Worse still, two weeks ago, the Nightly News briefly fell into third place in the ratings for the first time ever. The network partly attributed the drop to ABC's rejuvenated news operation. It also admitted that affiliate switches had hurt; in the past two years, NBC has lost ten major local stations to ABC, affecting the ratings for both news and entertainment shows. Nonetheless, there were some hopeful signs: the news budget is up 23% over last year, and Tom Snyder (host of the new magazine Prime Time) and Phil Donahue (with frequent appearances...
...fair-sized army of company brass, auditors, accountants, lawyers and Government investigators are still sifting through records of the past five years. Each manager has been grilled individually. To safeguard possible evidence, investigators had Weston's office sealed by a carpenter. When they ordered typeface samples from all the unit managers' typewriters, one manager's machine disappeared after a mysterious 2 a.m. fire in his office...