Word: pbs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sometime novelist (Entertaining Strangers, The Gospel According to Joe) and television scriptwriter (an adaptation for PBS of the John Cheever story O Youth and Beauty!), Gurney is writing a play that he hopes will take on bigger and more tragic proportions than his 16 slight, mostly short stage works to date. Says he: "When I start writing a script, it always seems serious. But some how the pratfalls sneak in, and then I fight to keep them." His upbringing, he believes, has provided more than simply the raw material of his scripts: "I think it was the very fact that...
...with circulation hovering around 45,000. McManus one of the few official spokesmen for the Society--writes a syndicated column published in more than 100 county newspapers, although few big city papers run "The Birch Log." Recently, McManus has appeared on CBS's "Nightwatch" and is also scheduled for "PBS Latenight...
...magic channel selector take you on a ramble through the satellite night. Three basketball games fill the sports stations: one pro, one college, one high school. Cable News Network is airing its 30-min. business report. With Mick Jagger and Joan Jett setting the tempo, MTV rocks all night. PBS has opera in German and soap opera in the Queen's English. In the free-for-all called cable access, gurus and do-gooders are proselytizing for churches without disciples, causes without effect. A raunchier access channel offers the spectacle of a young man tap dancing as he undresses...
Where have all the ratings gone? Some to the independent stations (whose share of viewers in the 18-to-49 age group has jumped 71% since 1978); some to PBS (whose audience has more than doubled in three years, to 5.3%), some to Home Box Office and Showtime (whose combined subscription base is now 15 million, up 50% from 1981), some to the burgeoning number of cable households (30 million strong, with 350,000 new homes each month), and doubtless some to video games, video discs and other plug-in software. Yet the raw number of network viewers has barely...
...invited by WBZ, the Boston NBC affiliate, to preside over a children's show called Hot Hero Sandwich. That lasted only 13 weeks, but then PBS offered him a talk show in which he interviewed ordinary people about their health and emotional problems. Last September he was signed by Metromedia for a commercial program. Cottle is acutely sensitive to criticism that he has sold out. Says he: "For years I wrote serious books and got no attention. Now that I'm on television, everyone wants to take a crack...