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...said it would seek to have the candidates on evening news shows such as Dateline NBC. CBS made a vague promise of "free, unfiltered access" to viewers through its news programs. CNN anted up with five minutes a week for four weeks on Inside Politics. And Fox's Rupert Murdoch last year opened the bidding with an hour of prime time on election...
...fourth in the ratings (partly because it's on far fewer stations than its network rivals). And it looks awfully lonely on Fox, considering that the network has no plans to start an evening newscast or any other national news show in the immediate future. But with Fox chief Rupert Murdoch vowing to launch a 24-hour cable news channel in the fall--and with a growing roster of network-level talent signing up to help him, led by former CNBC chief Roger Ailes--the concept of Fox News may no longer be an oxymoron...
Servicing those local stations with news footage was a priority starting in the early '90s. "There was a conscious decision made that we would not produce at the network level a national newscast," says Paul Amos, who ran the Fox News Service from 1991 to 1993. "Rupert and [former Fox chairman] Barry Diller felt strongly that the hallmark of Fox News would be locally produced programs with assistance at the national level." Amos' staff did no news gathering but acted essentially as a distribution service, gathering stories from overseas suppliers and from Fox-owned stations in the U.S. and feeding...
...Turner and Rupert Murdoch are no longer the world's most eccentric media moguls. MICHAEL JACKSON has announced a deal to create Kingdom Entertainment, "one of the best global entertainment multinational organizations in the world," with PRINCE AL-WALEED BIN TALAL BIN ABDULAZIZ AL-SAUD, nephew of Saudi Arabia's King Fahd. The Prince, who seems to favor working with troubled operations (he already owns part of Euro Disney and London's Canary Wharf), says he wants to provide the world with family-oriented entertainment, from theme parks to concert tours, including Jackson's. For now at least, attracting publicity...
...meeting stopped short of a session of Name That TV Theme. Even so, the rare assemblage of media moguls--among them Fox chief Rupert Murdoch, Atlanta cable baron Ted Turner and Walt Disney president Michael Ovitz--gave Clinton good reason to be pleased. They announced plans to develop a ratings system that would label shows high in sex, violence or other adult material. Their action was spurred by the 1996 Telecommunications Act, which will require new TV sets to have the V chip, a device that enables parents to block out objectionable shows. Though network executives have long opposed government...