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...less in its spiritual mission than in its business plan. Pax TV executives say the network can earn profits with even a cablelike 1 rating (attracting 1% of the available audience). One reason is that Paxson owns not just the network but also 78 of the 95 stations that will be carrying it, enabling him to make money at both ends of the pipeline. Another is the cost efficiencies made possible by programming and promoting a uniform schedule on all its stations, which will run only a tiny amount of local fare. "We operate our stations way more efficiently than...
...notoriety had helped invigorate his social life--a comment he has since denied. And angry simply because he did nothing before or after the carnage. "What have I done?" he defiantly asked radio disk jockey Tim Conway Jr. one night during an impromptu call-in to Los Angeles station KLSX. "I have done nothing wrong." Even the police have told him so, Cash said. "You s.o.b.!" screamed Conway in return. "I hope you burn in hell...
...crash is part of popular legend now. The 13th pillar in the Alma tunnel has become a place of morbid pilgrimage: a way station in the re-enactment of Diana's life and death. But a thousand imponderables lie behind the tragic tale of that car accident on Aug. 31, 1997, that also killed her lover Dodi Fayed and driver Henri Paul. French authorities still have no clear answers to many vexing questions. They say they have definitively ruled out the possibility of a conspiracy, and now consider the crash an accident owing mainly to drunk driving, excessive speed...
...made using a photo of her standing next to President Clinton. The picture appeared in a recruitment brochure for Albion College. Leno remarked that the literature mentioned opportunities for "hands-on experience." Photsios, who claims she suffered "embarrassment, humiliation and indignity," is suing Leno and three others, including the station that aired the show, for $75,000. Leno's taking President Clinton's first approach: not commenting...
...your report about pay-for-play on the radio [SHOW BUSINESS, Aug. 3], you gave a false impression of the Flip Records/Interscope band Limp Bizkit. Although in the spring of 1998 Flip/Interscope did have a pay-for-play contract with radio station KUFO of Portland, Ore., the arrangement didn't really have any long-term impact on Limp Bizkit's success. Before there was significant airplay from any radio station, including KUFO, Limp Bizkit's debut record, upon release in July 1997, landed on the Billboard Heatseekers Chart and stayed there for more than 40 weeks; it will be gold...