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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Suzanne Vega reached the Top Ten with Luka, a more understated and artful approach to the topic. Nonetheless, the mournful plea of Dear Mr. Jesus clearly strikes a chord. "You can go on with child-abuse announcements and public service all you want," says Buddy Scott, program director for WBBM-FM in Chicago, "but this song causes an emotion in you that you really are not prepared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Dear Mr. Jesus | 12/21/1987 | See Source »

Mary and Mike now occasionally appear together as co-anchors on weekend newscasts for WBBM-TV in the Windy City. Officials at some stations who once forbade such arrangements have concluded that employing couples is sometimes good business. Indeed, antinepotism rules are slowly being lifted at companies across the nation. O'Melveny & Myers, one of the nation's largest law firms, has engaged several married couples. Martin Marietta, the giant aerospace and defense contractor, actually has an affirmative hire-a-couple policy. The company believes it is a sound strategy to lure and retain top people. Its Denver division...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sexes: Dual Careers, Doleful Dilemmas | 11/16/1987 | See Source »

Nonetheless, PUSH started picketing WBBM's offices twice a week and urged black viewers to tune out. In December the organization presented a proposed agreement to the station. The document called upon WBBM to hire two male black or Hispanic anchors and establish a 40% employment quota for minorities. It said the station should conduct 35% of its banking with black-owned institutions and assign 25% of its legal business to minority lawyers. WBBM also was asked to donate $10 million to the United Negro College Fund and $1 million to "black organizations designated by PUSH...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: When Push Gives a Shove | 4/14/1986 | See Source »

Three weeks ago, CBS named Johnathan Rodgers as WBBM's general manager. A seasoned TV executive who left his job as head of the CBS Morning News to take the Chicago job, Rodgers, 40, is a well-liked, decisive manager who happens to be black. Jackson and the Rev. Hycel Taylor, the president of PUSH, hailed the choice as a partial capitulation to their demands, thus making it appear that Rodgers won the job because of his color...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: When Push Gives a Shove | 4/14/1986 | See Source »

...boycott hurt the station's news shows? It is impossible to say. WBBM's news broadcasts, once ranked No. 1, have slipped to second place behind ABC-owned WLS. But the decline began several years ago, when Kurtis left for the CBS Morning News. WLS's potent schedule (the hugely popular Wheel of Fortune appears opposite the second half-hour of WBBM's 6 p.m. news show) and its vastly improved news programs have further siphoned off WBBM's audience. The CBS station has also been bedeviled by internal squabbling so severe that a shoving match once broke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: When Push Gives a Shove | 4/14/1986 | See Source »

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