Word: turneritis
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...TURNER'S COME AND GONE. Director Claude Purdy's backyard realism suits August Wilson's lyric text, at the Los Angeles Theater Center...
...TURNER'S COME AND GONE. Director Claude Purdy's backyard realism suits August Wilson's lyric text, at the Los Angeles Theater Center...
...service that will be launched next week by NBC, is causing plenty of stir. The channel will compete directly with cable's chief business-news outlet, the Financial News Network (FNN). But some in the cable industry believe that CNBC has a much bigger rival in its sights: Ted Turner's cable news giant...
...spot on the dial. (FNN officials say their channel has been dropped by only a few systems to make room for CNBC.) In addition, the channel's programming, aimed at both hard-core market watchers and ordinary consumers, could be an uneasy mix. Then too there is Ted Turner to deal with. The CNN founder has already fired one loud volley at the competition, denouncing NBC executives as "bozos" and claiming that they started the channel only after failing to "stifle" the competition by buying CNN, a proposed deal that fell through a few years ago. Cable's Captain Outrageous...
CNBC is its name; financial and consumer news is its game. But some industry observers feel that NBC's new cable entry is really taking aim at Ted Turner...