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Does Updike withdraw to his study to write three pages every weekday? Bech instead takes up the literary
...idea seemed especially daring for Gannett: The country's sixth largest media company (reported 1981 sales: $1.4 billion), it specializes in small, mostly monopoly markets. Of its 88 dailies, only three, including morning-evening combinations, have weekday circulations above 150,000. Some critics contend that the new paper is a personal bid for recognition by the driven maverick Neuharth; they find evidence even in the office suites of USA Today, which are decorated in black, white and gray, the only colors Neuharth wears in public. Says one Gannett insider: "It's Al's ego trip." Responds Neuharth...
...Cairo and Tokyo). Total cost of running CNN: a substantial $51 million a year. But then, TV news is always an expensive business. ABC, NBC and CBS decline to reveal their news budgets, but industry sources say each spends about $150 million a year. A single installment of the weekday evening news costs at minimum about $200,000 and can range far higher; one report from Lebanon consumes about $4,000, not counting travel, editing and courier costs...
...weekday entries are NBC's Overnight, airing from 1:30 a.m. to 2:30 a.m. (Fridays 2 a.m. to 3 a.m.); ABC's This Morning, 6 a.m. to 7 a.m.; and NBC's Early Today, a 6:30 a.m. curtain raiser to the 30-year-old Today show, which airs at 7 a.m. To come in October are an ABC hour of news and talk from midnight to 1 a.m., featuring Interviewer Phil Donahue, and a CBS marathon from 2 a.m. to 7 a.m. that will lead into the network's Morning News from...
...Angeles, movie studio heads pass film scripts along with English muffins at the Bel Air Hotel and the Polo Lounge. Executives from Pillsbury and Control Data help keep the wood-paneled, chandeliered rooms of the Minneapolis Club filled to near capacity on weekday mornings. At New York City's Regency Hotel, Publisher Rupert Murdoch, Labor Lawyer Theodore Kheel and Investment Banker Felix Rohatyn frequently occupy adjacent tables. Bob Tisch, chairman of Loews Hotels, which owns the Regency, and a habitual breakfaster, says, "The transactions are very gentlemanlike, but there is big money negotiated here...