Word: sauter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Wyman, brought in from Pillsbury in 1980 as CBS Founder William S. Paley's hand-picked successor. (Indeed, Wyman and other top executives are guaranteed lucrative severance packages if any single interest acquires more than 25% of CBS's voting stock.) Close behind, say insiders, could be Van Gordon Sauter, the president of CBS News, whom many have blamed for the stumbling performance of the Morning News...
...premature speculation about the long-range consequences of the accident. But most of it seemed necessary. "What else could we do?" said Brokaw. "We couldn't go back to soap operas or game shows. People wanted answers, as many as they could get." Added CBS News President Van Gordon Sauter: "People didn't sit in front of their sets simultaneously. We had to keep showing it (the explosion scene) because there were new people constantly joining the audience...
...Morning News inspired cries of outrage from news traditionalists. A group of CBS News stars even inquired about possibly buying their division from the company. Last week the target of much of the staff discontent, CBS News President Edward Joyce, 52, was replaced. His job goes to Van Gordon Sauter, 50, executive vice president of the CBS Broadcast Group and Joyce's immediate predecessor as news chief...
...Sauter is hardly without his critics. Some veteran CBS staffers charge that he is concerned more with "razzle-dazzle" than with journalistic substance; they cite his support of the controversial hiring of Phyllis George as Morning News co-host. Yet the switch was welcomed by many at the network. Sauter is more outgoing and popular than Joyce (who will become senior vice president of CBS Worldwide Enterprises), and he presided over a successful retooling of the CBS Evening News under Anchorman Dan Rather. Said one executive: "Sauter is so forceful a man, he may pump people's creative juices again...
Network news executives, while hardly sympathetic to AIM, are reassured by the fact that PBS is placing the show in a larger context. "I think the format they have ended up with is a justifiable one," says Van Gordon Sauter, executive vice president of the CBS Broadcast Group. Indeed, except for its length, the AIM program seems little different from -- or more troubling than -- the "editorial replies" run frequently by local stations or guest editorials on a newspaper's op-ed page. The danger is that the Viet Nam skirmish may intensify. AIM Chairman Reed Irvine is contemplating a reply...