Word: wbbm
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...past six months, Jackson and fellow PUSH leaders have staged a viewer boycott of CBS-owned WBBM-TV in Chicago. Jackson last week said that he is trying to expand the campaign not only to four other CBS-owned stations but to the network as well. PUSH representatives met with the general managers of WCBS-TV in New York City and KCBS-TV in Los Angeles last week and their counterpart at WCAU-TV in Philadelphia two weeks ago; talks are being sought with KMOX-TV in St. Louis. Next week Jackson will air his complaints at CBS's annual...
...boycott was sparked last October by the demotion of Harry Porterfield, a black newsman who co-anchored WBBM's 6 p.m. weekday program. The station moved Porterfield to weekend anchor chores to make room for the returning Bill Kurtis, a former WBBM anchor who had left his post in 1982 to join the CBS Morning News. When the disaffected Porterfield was wooed by rival WLS-TV, WBBM offered to boost his salary to $300,000. After WLS again raised the ante, reportedly to a five-year contract worth more than $2 million, Porterfield opted to join WLS as a reporter...
...acted a bit like a college senior who is flattered to help the head cheerleader with her homework but is flustered by her answers. After weeks of rumors, Kurtis left the show last week; though a contract has not been signed yet, he likely will return to CBS-owned WBBM-TV in Chicago. Veteran CBS Reporter Bob Schieffer will join George until a new co-host is named, probably in the early fall...
Many complaints about the press have less to do with the accuracy or fairness of stories than with the techniques used to get them, which have gone so far as breaking and entering, electronic bugging, impersonation, entrapment. Says Walter Jacobson, anchor of CBS's WBBM-TV in Chicago: "I do not believe there should be any restrictions. I have had to use all sorts of ruses to get information, but I do not feel I have to be honest with public officials who are never honest with us." New Orleans Television Reporter Pierre DeGruy posed as the owner...
John Zucker, WBBM's press manager, said yesterday that WBBM staff members in El Salvador have tried to talk with "people from both sides. Including the leftist opposition," but added that she does not know of any personal contacts between Bourgeois and the guerrillas...