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...last Monday, the Robertses were ready to strike. They began placing calls to Diller at 2 p.m. on Tuesday, hoping to arrange a meeting at the Waldorf-Astoria hotel that evening. Discovering that Diller was en route to New York City from Los Angeles with CBS entertainment president Howard Stringer and others, father and son hastily arranged to meet the plane at an airport in Teterboro, New Jersey. Diller alighted and read their letter. Then he canceled plans for a dinner with CBS executives and rode back to Manhattan with the Robertses...
...quickly at ease in the company he hopes will be his big new home. The day the deal was announced, he called Evening News co-anchor Dan Rather for a chat and was escorted around the network's New York City broadcast center on 57th Street by Howard Stringer, CBS's Broadcast Group president. Tisch said Stringer would stay on in the new regime. And Diller, who has often castigated the bigger networks as boring and bloated, promised that there would be no ticker-tape parade of pink slips...
...executives were doing their best last week to minimize the shock of the Murdoch heist. At a Thursday press conference, CBS Broadcast Group president Howard Stringer pointed out that the affiliation switches affect only 8% of the network's audience and predicted that the ratings loss would amount to no more than two-tenths of a Nielsen point. (CBS was No. 1 in the Nielsens for the 1993-94 season with a 14.0 rating, 1.6 points higher than No. 2 ABC and 6.8 points better than...
...with former Fox stations that, typically, do not have an early-evening newscast as a lead-in. In any case, the inevitable scramble for affiliates promises to be a no-win game for all three networks. "There's going to be a lot of churn at the networks," says Stringer. "Loyalty just went out the window. That isn't really good for broadcasting...
...research into Neanderthals, the relationship between them and modern humans is still a topic for hot debate. Some textbooks classify Neanderthals as a subspecies within Homo sapiens; others list a separate species, Homo neanderthalensis. British paleontologist Christopher Stringer is convinced that Neanderthals evolved in Europe from Homo erectus and suddenly became extinct between 35,000 and 30,000 years ago, unable to compete effectively with Homo sapiens originating in Africa. "In my view," he says, "they are a dead end -- highly evolved in their own direction but not in the direction of modern humans...