CBS Reacts


June 16, 2001


BOB GARFIELD: Under ratings pressure from HBO, the networks react. [ORGAN MUSIC]

ANNOUNCER: Coming to CBS this fall, Touched By a Clergyman.

CLERGYMAN: Johnny, how would you like to come back to the rectory and see the brass rubbings I made in Canterbury?

YOUNG BOY: Rectory?!?

ANNOUNCER: Touched By a Clergyman. Coming this fall to CBS, where the Gospel is not always Good News. [ORGAN MUSIC FADES] [THEME MUSIC UP AND UNDER] 58:00

BOB GARFIELD: That's it for this week's show. On the Media was produced by Janeen Price and Katya Rogers; engineered by Irene Trudelle and edited-- by Brooke. We had help from Sean Landis and Kathleen Horan.

BROOKE GLADSTONE:Mike Pesca is our producer at large, Arun Rath our senior producer and Dean Cappello our executive producer. Bassist/composer Ben Allison wrote our theme. This is On the Media from National Public Radio. I'm Brooke Gladstone.

BOB GARFIELD: And I'm Bob Garfield.