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Vicious competition dominated television last week. After ABC added an extra night of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire to counter CBS's Survivor, Americans had to choose between watching real people withstand Regis Philbin's questions and watching real people withstand adverse conditions and 15 other disagreeable castaways. Add to that ESPN's broadcast of the Scripps Howard National Spelling Bee, and the carnage of human ego was inescapable...
...makes some odd celebrity sense that Regis Philbin is lending his name to a line of ties: his monochromatic cravats have inspired legions of followers. More difficult to explain are the recent designs of Grammy winner CARLOS SANTANA. Despite the fact that his taste in footwear has thus far gone largely unheralded, the singer announced last week that he would debut his own line of shoes. Brown Shoe Co. (makers of Buster Browns) will produce the Carlos collection for men and women; it will combine "cutting-edge fashion with multicultural influences." The results will be seen in department stores...
...local monopoly power to bring the Walt Disney Co. to heel was almost a perfect illustration of how not to run a business. By depriving 3.5 million households in seven markets, including New York City and Los Angeles, of their God-given right to watch Regis Philbin, some very highly paid people at the world's largest communications company leaped into an early lead for a coveted trophy--the one inscribed "Worst P.R. Move of the Year...
...moment, though, the winner appears to be ABC, which, after being excluded from Time Warner's cable operations for more than 36 hours, was reinstated on Tuesday afternoon. Time Warner, under pressure from a Federal Communications Commission demanding fast answers and from angry viewers demanding the return of Regis Philbin et al., put ABC back on its TV-top boxes and agreed to keep negotiating at least until a July deadline. ABC gets to keep access to 3.5 million households during the important sweeps period, when local advertising rates are set; Time Warner executives, meanwhile, get to work on coming...
...Milwaukee and Raleigh-Durham, viewers can relatively easily dismiss Time Warner in favor of satellite providers like Direct TV. And the cable giant may want to make amends quickly: After all, does Time Warner really have the stomach required to keep America away from its daily dose of Regis Philbin...