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...million. In a hard-driving business, Windham Hill's success is anomalous, for the label is rarely heard on the radio, and it advertises only occasionally. Instead, it relies on word of mouth among its target audience of young white professionals. It must be doing something right: Pianist George Winston, perhaps the best known of its largely faceless roster, has been on Billboard's Top 40 jazz chart a total of 184 weeks with his album December, a user-friendly amalgam of Bach, Satie and Jazzman Keith Jarrett...
...center for two of the three networks but an estimated $12 million-a- year loser for CBS. From Charles Kuralt through Maria Shriver and Forrest Sawyer, the network has tried countless hosts and formats in an effort to boost the Morning News audience. In May CBS brought in Susan Winston, the former producer of ABC's Good Morning America, to come up with an entirely new format for the show. Her ideas for a city-hopping program with multiple hosts (among the names proposed: Frank Gifford, Connie Chung and Linda Ellerbee) were first received enthusiastically but later rejected. Winston quit...
...Winston was hardly alone in her dismay. Though all three network morning ) shows are a mix of news and entertainment (Good Morning America is produced by ABC's entertainment division, while Today is a product of NBC News), the new CBS morning show will almost certainly have less news content than its predecessor. "Everyone is disheartened to see it go," says CBS Correspondent Bill Plante. "It doesn't contribute to a sense of stability in the network...
...failed ventures that CBS got itself into. To a great extent, the chickens have come home to roost." Some staff members are actually rooting for a Tisch takeover, on the assumption, in the words of one news producer, that "anything is better than what we've got." Susan Winston compares the atmosphere to the days at ABC before the January takeover by Capital Cities Communications: "I think that the various CBS divisions are trying to position themselves for whatever is to come -- meaning the era of Tisch...
...continues to question his identity and religion. But he also professes to have tempered his desire to make it to the White House--a desire that dates from his discovery of John F. Kennedy at age 8. One current career ideal is to be an intellectual/politician in the Winston Churchill/Daniel Patrick Moynihan mode...