Dan Rather: You are dismissed
September 30, 2009 by Bill Sobel
Filed under Blog, People
from the TV Column of todays Washington Post
Rather’s Lawsuit Against CBS Tossed Out
By Lisa de Moraes/The Washington Post
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Dan Rather’s legal wrangling slogs into its third year: His lawyer vows he will appeal a New York court ruling Tuesday that tossed out the former evening news anchor’s $70 million breach-of-contract suit against CBS [...]
NICK YOUNG: Images courtesy of O.J. Simpson (sort of)
August 24, 2009 by Bill Sobel
Filed under Blog, People
Nick Young is a radio guy…from his days at WLW in Cincinnati, WEEI and WHDH in Boston, RKO Radio and currently anchor of The World News Roundup on CBS heard locally on WCBS 880 here in NYC. But when the microphone is turned off he becomes Nick Young artist…and a pretty good one at that!
According [...]
Walter Cronkite “and that’s the way it was”
July 18, 2009 by Bill Sobel
Filed under People
If someone were to to ask me “who was the man who defined the job tv news anchorman?” it would be Walter Cronkite..bar none. While we never had never met we had a connection…we were both fascinated by the space program…so it’s ironic that Cronkite passed away exactly 40 years after the flight of Apollo [...]
Dan Dubno: Playing “Network Chicken” at CBS News
February 14, 2009 by Bill Sobel
Filed under People
Dan Dubno (a/k/a Digital Dan) is a good buddy and one of the smartest people I know. He is a pioneer in the use of powerful tools for news coverage. Until recently he was producer and technologist for CBS News in New York, where he coordinated Special Events Unit coverage.
He forwarded this sad, but fascinating [...]
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