Word: weekday
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...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...
...variety of backgrounds and places (some have come from as far as Texas to stay with the monks) and for a number of reasons. While most spend about three days at the house, guests on occasion stay as long as a week or even a month. On any given weekday, the 10-12 outside people there may range from Episcopal clergy who need a little time away from parish duties to students who need a little time away from school, especially during exams. "This is something we've always done," says Fr. Smith. "This is what...
...also mull the phenomenal success of Wheel of Fortune. A fixture on NBC's morning schedule since 1975, Wheel was on the verge of cancellation in 1982, when a small distribution company named King World decided to create a night-time syndicated version. The show (now seen twice each weekday in most cities, in both network and syndicated editions) soon became a major hit, and this season generated $70 million in gross revenues. "If Wheel continues to hang in there," says King World Chairman Roger King, "it will do better business than Star Wars...
...Pennsylvania Company clothing store sales were approximately double those of an average weekday, according to manager Bruce Benjamin...
...spectacular golden foothills. The bright, bright sunlight is not flattering to Point Sal Road, the main street. Just off Point Sal stands a TV satellite dish nearly as big as its owners' trailer home. On the lot next door, a slack-bellied black horse eats greens. Early on a weekday afternoon, Casmalia is quiet but not silent: somewhere chickens crow, a toddler yelps, and Linda Ronstadt sings. "A lot of people don't like a town like this," says Phyllis Vaniter, "but we do." They may like it, but they hate the smell. During the past year, FOR SALE signs...