Word: sauter
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...chairman Laurence Tisch that the network should move its evening news to 10 o'clock, where it would get a bigger audience. (Tisch listened, but nothing came of it.) "There has to be some change in the structure we now have," says former CBS News president Van Gordon Sauter, "where three evening-news shows are Xerox copies of one another in a dwindling market. Someone will see a chance to break out first and make a big score...
...Chao, who had helped develop Cops and America's Most Wanted; he was fired after three months when he hired a male stripper to help illustrate his talk on censorship at a conference organized by Murdoch. A number of top executives--among them ex-CBS News president Van Gordon Sauter and longtime CBS News executive Joseph Peyronnin--came and went after that, and plans changed just as often. An evening newscast was being considered, then it wasn't. A prime-time magazine show, Front Page, went on the air, then was canceled. A late-night news show...