Cola clashes and TV ads reshape pop culture in 1994
The TV column surveys cola campaigns starring Michael Jackson and Julio Iglesias for Pepsi and Coca Cola, noting a $17 million spend across ads and a 155 country rollout. It also covers Wendy’s Where's the Beef? retreat as Clara Peller returns later, Kathleen Sullivan staying at ABC, a surge in game shows led by The Price Is Right Wheel of Fortune and Family Feud, and network changes including Silver Spoons casting Pearl Bailey and Tony Schwartz leaving WCBS-TV.
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Do theme songs affect TV show popularity
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Chamberlain to star in Lost Hero miniseries
NBC to air a four hour miniseries Lost Hero about Raoul Wallenberg with Richard Chamberlain in the lead. Gerald Green wrote the teleplay from Frederick Werbell and Thurston Clarke. It is scheduled for 1984 85.
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Music professor to hold Earl V. Moore Chair in Michigan
Ann Arbor Professor Glenn E Watkins of the University of Michigan will assume the Earl V Moore Professorship of Music in the School of Music effective September 1. The current Moore chair holder Professor Eugene Bossart will retire May 31.
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