Word: slotting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...editing and other post- filming tasks also take time, returning series may trickle in through November, and new-series debuts could bump up against the Thanksgiving-to- Christmas holiday period, when viewing lags and seasonal specials are the norm. At least some "fall" premieres may arrive in the January slot customarily given to midseason replacements...
...sell its arcade-game division to WMS Industries, its major competitor, for $8 million. Video games earned Bally $91 million in 1982, but in 1983 the video craze cooled and profits plummeted to $5.2 million. Bally, which owns four gambling casinos in Nevada and New Jersey, will keep making slot machines and video lottery games, which earned $182 million last year. In the Chicago plant used to make the arcade games, Bally will produce weight-lifting machines and other health-club equipment for Life Fitness, a subsidiary...
WISEGUY (CBS, Wednesdays, 10 p.m. EDT). A new slot in summer reruns has helped boost the ratings for this intelligent, hard-boiled crime drama, featuring Ken Wahl as an undercover cop on the trail of slimy bad guys...
...Beryl Cohen, an ally from his high school days, would run for Lieutenant Governor. When Nixon took Richardson to Washington, the legislature filled the attorney general's post with a Democrat, and Dukakis had no clear shot at the office. So he switched, and took aim at Cohen's slot, the lieutenant governorship. Dukakis felt or feigned surprise that Cohen would take this departure from the game plan as enough to end their friendship. It was just a matter of who could do the job better. Nothing personal...
This week Jackson seems headed for a self-propelled crash in his public quest for the vice-presidential nomination. Party leaders blanched when he started insisting on the slot, but Dukakis has played along coolly. The Governor invited Jackson over for a July 4th dinner and a fireworks-filled Boston Pops concert...