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After 21 years as anchor of NBC Nightly News, Tom Brokaw, 64, steps down this week. He may have started a trend: his CBS rival Dan Rather announced last week that he will give up the anchor chair in March, leaving ABC's Peter Jennings as the last of the three old lions who have personified network news for two decades. TIME's Richard Zoglin got in some last questions...
...think Peter is a formidable player in all this. People know who he is. Does that mean that they are going to automatically switch over from NBC or CBS to ABC? Whenever Brian has substituted for me for a week at a time or longer, he's held his own. And it's not just about these personalities who are out in front. It's also about the strength of the organization and the kind of broadcast that...
...Major League Baseball's problem stay under the radar for so long? On ABC's 20/20 last week, Conte ridiculed baseball's drug-testing policy, which is just two years old and precludes off-season testing: "They're not in contact with reality. I mean, the program that they put together is a joke." Players are tested once during the season. First-time offenders are placed in treatment programs but not sanctioned. Former major league catcher Don Slaught, who played from 1982 to 1997 and with Bonds in Pittsburgh from 1990 through 1992, insists that even...
This year every-body's back-up New Year's Eve date has some network competition. After 33 years of freezing his buns off in Times Square, ABC stalwart DICK CLARK will face a challenge from the next generation's overgrown teenager, CARSON DALY. Daly, who used to ring in the New Year for MTV, will host a new broadcast for NBC, home to his late-night talk show Last Call with Carson Daly. Apparently Daly prefers working on New Year's Eve. Last year, "I was in St. Bart's," he says. "I was watching Puffy dance...
...college. The firm also started the Ariel Community Academy, an inner-city Chicago school that teaches elementary school students how to invest. Hobson takes her stump speech-- essentially a crash course in investment strategy--to PTA meetings, union halls and schools, and she is a financial consultant for ABC's Good Morning America. She agitates on corporate and civic boards, from the Chicago Public Library to Princeton University. "Mellody has a deep set of values about what's right and what's wrong," says former Senator Bill Bradley, a close friend. "She knows that she can have an impact because...