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From: cb@hlwpc.UUCP (Carl Blesch)
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Subject: Garrison buys CBS
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Date: Mon, 22-Apr-85 09:22:55 EST
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Posted: Mon Apr 22 09:22:55 1985
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Reprinted (without permission, of course) from
USA Today, Monday 4/22/85:

CBS 'sold'? Joke is on Turner
  Ted Turner and Jesse Helms may not know it, but they have
competition for CBS.
  Garrison Keillor, host of public radio's Prairie Home
Companion and a master teller of tall tales, announced Saturday
on his live show that he bought the media giant.
  "We pretty much worked out the deal in about 20 minutes,"
he said, tongue-in-cheek.
  Cost was no problem.  "You use other people's money,"
Keillor said.
  Shows Keillor is planning:
  -Frog Farmer: "The heartbreak and struggles of the unsung
heroes who grow the nation's frogs."
  -Weather Mom, who tells you when to take a heavy jacket."
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My comment:  Where has this reporter been?  It was TWO Saturdays
ago that Keillor announced he bought CBS!