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...executives Eric Ober and Howard Stringer suggest, implausibly, that the co-anchorship was Rather's idea; Rather recalls that Stringer broached the notion. But even Ober, for all his gush about freeing Dan to report from the field, admits the goal is better numbers. In the 12 years since Rather took over for Walter Cronkite, the show's share of the audience has shriveled by a third. Meanwhile, Tom Brokaw's piece has shrunk only 10%, and Peter Jennings' has held steady -- heroic achievements in this twilight-of-the-networks...
With Chung and Rather going on the air together next Tuesday, there is a curiously hasty quality to the rejiggering. Stringer wanted to have the deal done before the CBS affiliates' meeting this week, and he was apparently in a fret about the competition. He may be worried that Andrew Lack, the smart new NBC News president who came from CBS (where he was Chung's executive producer), will work some sudden magic at NBC. Then there's the chance CBS may lose Ed Bradley, who is being offered millions to defect...
...series, the Arnolds claim CBS has committed to a fall launch and a 22-episode order. But as of Friday, a CBS spokesman insisted, "Nothing has been confirmed," and insiders say the show may be put off until midseason. "It's a great opportunity," said CBS broadcast president Howard Stringer of Arnold's new show, "if it comes...
...Then suddenly Monday morning Richard Woodbury, our Houston bureau chief, found himself returning pell-mell up Highway 6 from a weekend at home, knowing that the patient journalistic groundwork was about to be tested. He and Atlanta bureau chief Michael Riley, Los Angeles correspondent Sally Donnelly and stringer Carlton Stowers stared at the hot ruins of David Koresh's compound and tried, like the rest of the nation, to understand the meanings, motives and mystical beliefs that had gone up in smoke. To start, they continued to work contacts within the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms...
...world in which more and more stations and networks will become available on your box. Yet even 500 points of light will not necessarily mean a sudden bounty of new home entertainment. "There isn't an inexhaustible supply of talent out there waiting to fill 500 channels," warns Howard Stringer, CBS Broadcast Group president. "The first thing that comes to mind is what Alvin Toffler called the Law of Raspberry Jam: the wider any culture is spread, the thinner it gets...