Let's be friends. Again.

摘要

The 1980s were sweet times for cable programmers. Flush with cash from a dual-revenue stream economic model that was the envy of the TV business, they were rising in power and eager to grow. So eager that in the spring of 1985, Turner Broadcasting System's founder Ted Turner attempted an audacious hostile takeover of CBS Inc. Although Turner was rebuffed, the very idea of the brash cable impresario gobbling up the venerable broadcasting company symbolized the bravado of the cable programming sector.