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...Rock-throwing black and mixed-race protesters fought pitched battles with police in the southern city all week. The authorities responded with two new weapons. One is a water cannon that spews purple dye onto demonstrators so they can be identified later and arrested. The press immediately dubbed the substance purple rain. The second is more lethal: a rapid-fire gun mounted atop an armored personnel carrier that shoots potentially deadly rubber bullets...
...Limehouse Studios was dancing in the aisles last week as Singer Carl Perkins taped a rockabilly revival for Britain's Channel 4, to be broadcast on New Year's Day. For the 30th-anniversary celebration of his platinum platter Blue Suede Shoes, Perkins played a set of vintage rock 'n' roll with a little help from such admirers as Eric Clapton, Dave Edmunds, Ringo Starr and George Harrison. Rock groupies were impressed by an even unlikelier occurrence: Harrison, who lost his wife Patti Boyd to Clapton in 1974, joking onstage with his onetime rival. For a night, at least...
...many staffers, the firings underscored their fear that the loyalties of Sauter, 50, and Joyce, 52, no longer belong to the news division but to Black Rock, the nickname for CBS Inc.'s Manhattan headquarters. According to their critics, the two men have their feet firmly on the corporate ladder and are eager to advance upward. Though both spent much of their careers as journalists (Sauter worked as a newspaperman for nine years, while Joyce began as a radio reporter), they made their reputations in management positions. Sauter served as the network's chief censor and head of the sports...
...Graphics have grown flashier, segments faster paced. Whether these developments should be cheered or booed depends on which staffer is asked. For many critics, the Sauter-Joyce news approach was symbolized by West 57th, a briskly edited magazine show with four young hosts and a predilection for pieces about rock stars and religious cults. Some veterans, including Hewitt, publicly castigated the show, though a few early doubters admit that the program grew better during its six-week run last summer. Now on a planned hiatus, West 57th is due back on the air at year...
...currently in existence, compared with just four in 1968 and nine in 1974. Though music, news and sports constitute the bulk of network fare, the radio dial is increasingly filling up with daily, weekly or monthly "longform" programming, from music/variety series like NBC's Live from the Hard Rock Café (with Host Paul Shaffer of TV's Late Night with David Letterman) to national talk/call-in shows, many inspired by the phenomenal success of Mutual Radio's seven-year-old Larry King Show...