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...been taking in around $200 million a year -- which means Fox has agreed out front to squander tens and probably hundreds of millions of dollars during the next four years. The deal, Fox's Rupert Murdoch blithely concedes, "will certainly be a loss." But these days in the televi -- that is, information superhighway -- business, the iffy expenditure of billion-dollar sums is required in order to be considered visionary. "It's a plan for the future," says Lucie Salhany, Murdoch's charmingly high-strung network president, of the football deal. "It takes the network to another level." In other words...
...notion of collecting his jottings and memories when "two drunkards cornered me in a hotel room near Heathrow Airport" and pressed on him a copy of Captain William Bligh's Log of H. M.S. Bounty, put out by a firm in Surrey called Genesis. This, and a televi sion program on the making of fine books, gave George the idea of "having these trivial bits of paper dignified in this...
...lawn. Old 75's trunk was 8 ft. thick at the base. It was the most solid citizen of the front acres. Teddy Roosevelt's children played around it. Mourners leaned on it when they brought John Kennedy's body back to the White House. The televi sion journalists knew a friend when they saw one: John Chancellor, Dan Rather, Frank Reynolds, Tom Brokaw - all established outdoor studios beneath the kindly arms of this seasoned Ulmus americana...
...campaign issues go, it could not compete with the war, the economy or law-and-order. But it was certainly an emotional question, as Richard Nixon understood. For years the National Football League has forbidden televi sion broadcasts of a team's home games within a 75-mile radius of its city, arguing that TV would cut the take at the stadium. Now Congress is considering legislation that would ban the blackout...
Brown calls it Televi$1on: The Business Behind the Box (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich; $8.95). The $ in the title is no misprint. The pursuit of the buck is no more dishonorable in television than elsewhere, but the pursuers constitute the most unabashed lot of yahoos, bunko shooters, numbers racketeers and overstuffed shirts that has been seen since Sinclair Lewis hung up his spites. Brown's cast is frighteningly real...