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...millions more in countries as distant as Japan and Australia got details on the California tragedy long before those who were closest to it. Just 21 minutes before the start of the World Series' third game, the TV pictures from San Francisco's Candlestick Park started to jiggle. ABC sportscaster Al Michaels shouted, "We're having an earth . . .!" Then the screens went black as power was lost. Soon the network switched to a rerun of a sitcom...
From the moment in 1963 when CBS became the first network to expand its 15- minute nightly newscast to half an hour, visionaries there and at rivals NBC and ABC began to talk of the logical next step: a full hour of news. A quarter-century later, they are still just talking. But upstart Cable News Network, the 24-hour information service that began in 1980 and reaches 52 million households, has taken that step. Last week CNN launched The World Today, a 60-minute newscast (airtime: 6 to 7 p.m. EST) that in much of the U.S. competes head...
California's big number was 6.9. But either a Richter scale is too abstract, or the numbers it produces aren't satisfyingly meaty enough. Right from the beginning, Ted Koppel was begging for some casualty counts that he could spread around via ABC...
...nothing else, NBC executives seem guilty of violating a cardinal TV principle, the one about fixing things that aren't broken. Today is No. 1 in the morning-news ratings, and has been for nearly four years. Yet its margin over ABC's Good Morning America has been shrinking. For the past two weeks, Today has led by only 0.4 of a rating point, and it has fallen to second place in the key demographic group of women ages 25 to 54. "There were a lot of people who thought the show was a little stale," says an NBC executive...
Dzodin said ABC has worked hard to incorporate AIDS into prime-time television in both sitcoms and news programs. He described the tale of AIDS-infected Cynthia on "All My Children...