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Television. david letterman is now headed for cbs. >> cbs had lured him over with a salary more than four times that of leno and given him what he really wanted -- the 1 1:30 time slot now as dave and jay prepare to go head-to-head, one thing is clear, late night tv will never be quite the same. >> all of a sudden, theres a talk show war. >> start up your remote controls. the late night race is about to begin. >> on monday, david lettermans new show debuts here on cbs. followed a week later by c...

>> in 1991 there was not a lot of original programming for cable, but they were airing movies. so we needed to compete and i felt that if we didnt, we were going to kind of get swept out. so i came up with a notion of doing a cop show that was r rated. when abcs broadcast standards read our script, they went beserk. >> i was saying with a pad and a pencil drawing pictures of breasts to try to show them what we would show and what we wouldnt show. grown ups sitting in a room dodd bood doodling.

A new era of technology is forcing networks to re-examine the way they do business. >> new owners spent billions buying the networks recently. ge buying nbc. capital cities, abc. and lotus brothers buying cbs, and all of them want their moneys worth. >> well now have the strongest network, well have the stronger defense piece. this is going to be one dynamite company. >> theres a danger that news will be mixed up with the rest of television and considered just another profit. >> late 1920s, to e...

Tgif was on abc on friday and it was their block of family-oriented comedies. >> i cant take it. i need the cake. it was not sophisticated television. but these were shows that people adored. [ laughing ] >> cbs. >> cbs was in a really bad spot. they had just fallen apart over the early part of the 90s and had gone through a couple different network executives. >> but then suddenly they had this hit with an unknown comic. this was the year of seinfeld, no hugging, no learning and this was a show...

The following movie is rated r. >> in 1991 there was not a lot of original programming for cable, but they were airing movies. so we needed to compete and i felt that it we didnt, we were going to kind of get swept out. so i came up with a notion of doing a cop show that was r rated. when abcs broadcast standards read our script, they went beserk. >> i was saying with a pad and a pencil drawingicres of breasts to try to show them what we would show anden wouldnt show. grown ups sitting in a room...

Never know whats next, beast yalt, who knows. >> we were getting a bomb threat. >> im 35 years old, and so afraid to tell people. i mean, just susan, im gay. >> ellen coming out was a huge moment for me personally because, you know, i was a closeted gay guy, gay child at that time and it was the bravest thing i saw. >> that felt great. that felt so great. >> initial reports suggest abc made foreign on ellens outing last night. it was accompanied with a lot of coming out parties including in alab...

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>> so, you want to go look at apartments tomorrow. >> sure. >> ellen degeneres, the comed n comedian, was about to come out. she does it on "time" magazine, yep, im gay. but she decided the character ellen plays on tv will also come out zits reprehensible that abc, now owned by disney of all companies s going to feature ellen as coming out of the closet. it wont be long before god knows what, you know, who knows. >> we were getting bomb threats. disney was really getting a lot of -- for even thi...

>> ellen coming out was a huge moment for me personally because, you know, i was a closeted gay guy. gay child at that time. and it was the bravest thing i saw. >> that felt great. that felt so great. >> initial reports suggest abc made a bundle on ellens highly publicized outing on national tv last night. it was accompanied by coming out parties all over the can country, including one in birmingham, alabama, where the local station refused to broadcast the show. >> she did a great thing. she wa...

And gave it to her and she understood the finality of the act that had occurred. and the first thing that she said to me was, please delay making the announcement, my son sean is probably at home sitting in front of the tv, i dont want him to find out about his fathers death while watching a tv program. >> i dont think that it really hit me until i heard that muzak playing "all my loving" and i called wabc, the newsroom, told them what i knew, that john lennon had been shot. as i understand it, ...