free text l0 to three-to-one, three-to-one today, i hanako montgomery in tokyo and this jensen: it s a time of enormous turmoil. shut up in here. the 60s are over dad. durham: here s michael at the foul line, a shot on ehlo. -good! -yeah! ha-ha! turner: we intend to cover all the news all the time. we won t be signing off until the world ends. isn t that special? any tool for human expression will bring out the best and the worst in us, and television has been that. they don t pay me enough to deal with animals like this. people are no longer embarrassed to admit they watch television. we have seen the news and it is us. clark: slowly but surely, the 1970s are disappearing. the 1980s will be upon us. what a decade it is coming up. happy new year! [ cheers and applause ] auletta: as you begin the 80s in the television world, the landscape was, on any given evening, 9 out of 10 people were watching only one of three networks. more than 30 million people are addicted to it.
and all of them want their money s worth. people began to find out that news could be a profit center. and that focused a lot of attention on us. a lot from people in wall street, for instance. if you think about the news divisions of cbs, nbc and abc, they were part of a really proud tradition, a journalistic tradition that really matters. we serve the public. this is not about profit and loss. and the people who worked at those news divisions were totally freaked out by what it meant that they were now owned by these larger corporate entities. if the television news isn t profitable at some point, there won t be any more television news on the networks. shales: i worry about people who are interested only in money and power getting ahold of television. it has higher purposes than that. we have seen the news and it is us. (mom) the moment i loved our subaru outback most.
brought about by business, competition, and technology. there were a variety of people why people who worked at broadcast networks were freaked out in the 1980s. one of them was cnn, and the rise of cable. another was being taken over by foreign entities in corporate america. new energy spent billions buying the networks recently, and all of them want their money s worth. people began to find out that news could be a profit center, and that focused a lot of attention on us. a lot from people in wall street, for instance. if you think about the news divisions of cbs, nbc, and abc, they were part of a proud tradition. a journalistic tradition that really matters. we serve the public but this is not about profit and loss. the people who worked at those news divisions were totally freaked out by what it meant that they were now owned by these larger corporate entities. television news isn t profitable at some point, there won t be anymore television news. i worry about people w
changes being brought about by business, competition, and technology. there are a variety of reasons why people who worked at the broadcast networks were freaked out in the 1980s. one of them was cnn and the rise of cable. another was being taken over by foreign entities in corporate america. new owners spent billions buying the networks recently, and all of them want their money s worth. people began to find out that news could be a profit center. and that focused a lot of attention on us. a lot from people in wall street, for instance. if you think about the news divisions of cbs, nbc, and abc, they were part of a really proud tradition a journalistic tradition that really matters. we serve the public. this is not about profit and loss. and the people who worked at those news divisions were totally freaked out by what it meant that they were now owned by these larger corporate entities. if the television news isn t profitable at some point, there won t be any more televis
another was being taken over by foreign entities in corporate america. new owners spent billions buying the networks recently, and all of them want their money s worth. people began to find out that news could be a profit center. and that focused a lot of attention on us. a lot from people in wall street, for instance. if you think about the news divisions of cbs, nbc, and abc, they were part of a really proud tradition a journalistic tradition that really matters. we serve the public. this is not about profit and loss. and the people who worked at those news divisions were totally freaked out by what it meant that they were now owned by these larger corporate entities. if the television news isn t profitable at some point, there won t be any more television news on the networks. i worry about people who are interested only in money and power getting ahold of television. it has higher purposes than that. we have seen the news and it is us. which is a lot. so take care of