Word: stringers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...share of the audience shrank to a low of 70% last season, and the decline shows no signs of leveling off. New technologies like home satellite dishes and fiber-optic cable could eventually pose even greater threats. "We've been outplayed, outsold, outmarketed, outhustled by younger entrepreneurs," says Howard Stringer, the former president of CBS News recently promoted to head of the CBS Broadcast Group. "We are still the Goliath of broadcasting, but we will be slain by all the little Davids if we don't pay attention to them...
There are strong arguments for both sides. Charting Rosenthal's rise at the Times from campus stringer at the City College of New York, Goulden provides a harsh account of his subject's personal life, including his prolonged extramarital affair with actress Katharine Balfour, whom, says Goulden, he promised to marry but eventually abandoned. Still, Fit to Print is at times as sympathetic as it is damning. Goulden clearly shares many of Rosenthal's conservative political views, and the author provides a sensitive account of the editor's painful childhood, during which Rosenthal lost his father and three sisters...
More than once in his 23 years as a researcher, producer, vice president and finally president of CBS News, Howard Stringer must have cursed the network's top brass. With one eye on the ratings and another on the bottom line, they have too often canceled a news program before it had a chance to catch on. Now Stringer will have no one to blame but himself. Last week, in a dramatic realignment of CBS management, Chief Executive Laurence Tisch elevated Stringer, 46, to the presidency of the CBS Broadcast Group. Though he has no direct experience in entertainment programming...
...turmoil at CBS -- including protests against layoffs and budget cuts, and a spate of embarrassing kiss-and-tell books -- the appointments were greeted with unusual comity. Burke "is the right guy at the right time," said Mike Wallace of 60 Minutes. Executive Producer Don Hewitt was equally enthusiastic about Stringer's elevation: "Howard will provide a sympathetic ear to talented writers, and that is what show business is all about...
...shrewd politician and ebullient leader, Stringer says that, among other things, he hopes to mend fences with Hollywood's TV producers, many of whom have become disenchanted with CBS. "I want to make this a place where we can talk about ideas, new ways of doing things," he says. Given the network's unprecedented third-place finish in last season's prime-time ratings race, he is going to need all the good ideas he can muster...