Fifty-Seven Stations Said No
Closed mid-October 1993 · On stands late October 1993
The Front
A Magazine for an Audience Nobody Else Was Billing
Time Inc. launches a new magazine under Quincy Jones's patronage, aimed at readers the mainstream music press had not been serving
The Deduction, Halved
A new federal budget act cuts the business-meal tax deduction from eighty percent to fifty
The Essay
The Boycott That Watched Anyway
A new ABC police drama premieres over a fifty-seven-affiliate content boycott, and the audience it draws is not the one the boycott predicted
The Foreign File
The Streets After the Firefight
A short dispatch on the city in the days after the raid went wrong, and the withdrawal debate it has already started in Washington
The Feature Well
The Nightly Rewrite
A profile of a late-night monologue writer, the daily grind behind six minutes of jokes
The City
Subject: A furniture piece on the first frost hitting the outdoor cafe tables along Columbus Avenue
The Back
A Second Hour, Right After the First
NBC hands its post-Tonight Show slot to a young, largely untested host
The Mood as a Tunable Instrument
A straightforward review of a new book's thesis that antidepressants can reshape an already-functioning personality, without the harder piece — floated once at lunch — asking whether the magazine's own senior editors were on it