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...else do the staffers so frequently consult, and replay, that glorious past. On the anniversary episode last month, a clip was shown of Edward R. Murrow, in 1951, instructing his director (Don Hewitt! - everyone was young once) to hook up the first ?live? coast-to-coast broadcast link, between WCBS in New York and KPIX in San Francisco. (Alas, that station now carries ?CBS SM? in less-than-prime 6 a.m. slot. But that?s OK. Old people can time-shift...
...Another reason to cherish ?CBS SM?: when Kuralt retired, he was succeeded by a man a year older than he. Osgood was New York City born, bred, schooled (Fordham) and employed (as the mellifluous morning man on WCBS news radio). Yet his bow tie, wry good nature and weakness for writing up a story in helium-light verse marked him as a Kuralt cousin. He joined the CBS network in 1971 and filled a daily 90-sec. slot called ?The Osgood File? (it?s run on 350 stations) as well as serving, for five years, as a host...
DIED. JERRY NACHMAN, 57, feisty New York City newsman; of gallbladder cancer; in Hoboken, N.J. He brought his quick wit, tabloid aggressiveness and (formerly) sizable girth to top news jobs at New York's WCBS-TV and WNBC-TV, the New York Post and most recently MSNBC, where he was editor in chief as well as the host of a weeknight talk show...
...president Steve Case said that AOL contacted the FBI and terminated the individual accounts as soon as it learned of the abuses.Of special concern is the threat that some users may prey on young children who use online services without their parent's supervision. In New York today, WCBS Radio reported that a concerned Westchester County father, George Telesha, was sent pornographic messages and pictures after he entered one of AOL's racy "chat rooms" pretending to be a 14-year-old girl named "Susie." The incidents were the latest in a series of porn-related problems for online services...
...raced ahead with a double digit lead, two polls show. In mid-October, Cuomo was trailing Pataki by nearly ten points andAlbany was gearing up for Republican purge. But today a New York Post-Fox 5 TV poll had Cuomo up by 15 points and a New York Times-WCBS TV poll had Cuomo up by 10 points.Post to 1994 Elections...