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Dates: during 1990-1999
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However, the two newer, smaller networks, the upstart United Paramount Network and the Warner Bros. channel, are embracing minority-themed programming as a way of differentiating themselves from the bigger, established players in the TV game. In a classic case of counterprogramming, the two mininetworks will between them air 11...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: TV'S BLACK FLIGHT | 6/3/1996 | See Source »

There's a standard explanation that white-run companies employ when they are taken to task for having homogeneous work forces. "Hey," upper-level management types will say, "we looked for qualified folks. There just were no black candidates." It's the old "N.B.C." answer, and in the face of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: TV'S BLACK FLIGHT | 6/3/1996 | See Source »

Indeed, failed pilots are hardly news. But is there a more complicated explanation than NBC's N.B.C. answer? Perhaps. TV seems to be undergoing a racial restructuring, a kind of ethnic perestroika. The four biggest networks, ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox, which finished announcing their prime-time fall lineups last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: TV'S BLACK FLIGHT | 6/3/1996 | See Source »

Mary, our checker, calls you by name and sometimes adds "cherub" or "buttercup." At special meals, Sandy, Anabela and the rest of the staff think up decorations for the dining hall that make it look like a themed playground. First-years come up only for a meal but they stay...

Author: By Patrick S. Chug, | Title: A Happy Lottery Story | 5/22/1996 | See Source »

Says Newsome: "I welcomed the Supreme Court decision. I saw it as an opportunity for the first time in years to focus on removing the vestiges of segregation. For 10 years we've concentrated on bringing in white kids. There's been no Afrocentric-themed magnet school because it doesn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE END OF INTEGRATION | 4/29/1996 | See Source »

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