TV & VIDEO - March 18, 1987

CBS has granted Phyllis George’s request to be released from her $1.2-million contract so she can help her husband, John Y. Brown, run for governor of Kentucky, USA Today reported Tuesday. George, who just received a $200,000 raise from the strike-plagued network although she hadn’t worked there for two years, said a clause in the no-work pact forbade her from taking part in political campaigns. A CBS spokesman said the savings for the network, which recently fired more than 200 CBS News staffers during a round of budget cuts, would be “significant.”