The Ledger
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Bob Johnson: CBS Could Have Launched 24-Hour Cable News Before CNN
“CBS with the Walter Cronkite, the brand as a father of news, could have launched on cable a CBS news network instead of letting Ted do it, but they saw themselves as a thirty-minute Six p.m. Period of news. They just didn't see news as a 24 hour audience produ…”
NutsOnline shipped 40,000 pounds of peanuts for a fan campaign saving Jericho
“So the number I remember was we shipped 40,000 pounds of peanuts. So that's that full truckload of peanuts.”
The 1980 album 'Chipmunk Punk' sold over one million copies overnight
“As it turns out, it sold over a million albums overnight, and then the people at CBS and NBC and ABC, they, well, you know, all of a sudden they wanted to have lunch.”