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...nearly 20 years as news-division president, may not be on the field to guide the team to a comeback. Last week ABC announced that Arledge, 65, will ascend to the newly created post of chairman of the news division. Replacing him as president--and eventual successor--is David Westin, 44, currently president of the television-network group, but a man with no news experience. (Westin will report to Arledge--who previously reported to Westin. Both jobs were described as promotions. Isn't television wonderful...
...business travelers, who have seen 20% rate increases in some cities, or for vacation travelers, who may be spending as much as 30% more this summer in the hot spots. Some chains are charging a fee if you leave a day early, while others, such as Hyatt and Westin, have tested a demand for as much as 72 hours' notice on cancellations...
...good deed," he says. "I thought I'd be able to fix the problem and stay with the company." Such thinking can be typical of whistle blowers. "[They] often claim to be more loyal than management to the best interests of the company," notes Columbia University professor Alan Westin, who has written a book about corporate informers...
...Cybill and ABC's Roseanne will now air at 8 p.m. Network programmers point out that they can no longer afford to aim prime-time shows strictly at children, since advertisers spend most of their dollars targeting the 18-to-49 age group. Says ABC television network president David Westin: "There was a time when most households had only one TV set, so majority ruled. But with the increase in households with two, three or four sets, we've increasingly seen children going into one room and adults into another...
Network executives argue that it would be self-destructive to make programming decisions on the basis of who owns a show rather than how popular it is. "This is an intensely competitive business," says David Westin, president of the ABC television network group. "It's a business where 250 million Americans get to vote every night and we get a report card the next morning. No network can afford to start playing fast and loose with its programming decisions in order to reap some benefits out of syndication five years down the road...