Word: wussler
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...thereby pushing TBS's total debt to nearly $2 billion. He now faces a $600 million repayment that comes due Sept. 15. Will Turner be able to keep his head above water? His subordinates think so. "We've always lived close to the edge," says TBS Vice President Robert Wussler. "Today's numbers are just bigger. Some zeros have been added...
...until last week. Opening the Goodwill Games, Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev referred to "the lurking catastrophe" and "the dangerous race toward the abyss" in his cheerful welcome to some 70 nations, not including Israel or 1988 Olympics host-designate South Korea. "They dodged the bullet on Israel," said Robert Wussler, executive vice president of Turner Broadcasting, "using this excuse, that excuse. They were much more direct on South Korea. They just said no." With so much goodwill in force, it certainly seemed like the Olympics...
...with a whopping 21.6 rating. With its roster of lighthearted, youth-oriented shows, ABC had gauged the national mood well, but still it got no respect. To critics who disparaged TV as a "vast wasteland," ABC's schedule became Exhibit A. Network rivals were contemptuous. CBS-TV President Robert Wussler denounced ABC's program lineup as "junk"; NBC Executive Paul Klein called it "programming for kids and dummies...
...Schonfeld said, was not a journalist. As soon as Schonfeld resigned, Turner started negotiating to get Freeman back. Turner kept Schonfeld on as a consultant and corporate board member, however, and as replacements he named a committee of key Schonfeld aides: Ed Turner (no relation), Burt Reinhardt and Robert Wussler, a tough-minded former president of CBS-TV. Wussler contends that Ted Turner will continue to stand apart from CNN's day-to-day journalistic operations. Explains Wussler: "He does not have time for it, and he knows that is where he would be most vulnerable to his detractors...