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...repeat of the 2000 debacle. "We're all agreed that the race is to be right, not first," says NBC News vice president Bill Wheatley. NBC will prevent analysts on its "decision desk," who will sift through the NEP data, from knowing the calls made by other networks. ABC News has a new policy of not calling a winner if the margin is less than 1%, even after all precincts have reported. CBS has moved its decision desk into the studio to give viewers a window into the process. "We'll be trying to explain very clearly where our information...
...Bush Administration had ignored repeated warnings that the situation was deteriorating. Bush blamed trial lawyers for driving so many manufacturers out of the market in the first place. But there wasn't much evidence that voters were buying any of it. Although 61% of participants in the latest ABC News poll say they are concerned about the shortage, the issue doesn't appear to be changing their minds about the candidates. "I mean, 40% of the people are going to blame the President for clouds in the sky," Karl Rove, Bush's chief political adviser, told TIME...
...always stood out for his cockiness and competitive fire. There was the time near the end of his tenure as Today executive producer when Zucker, who was only 26 when he made the show the morning leader, hired a helicopter to buzz over an outdoor concert for ABC's Good Morning America. Then there was his recent quip to an industry trade publication that "most of the viewers of [CBS] are in nursing homes." At last spring's network up-front presentation, where advertisers decide how to spend their billions on the upcoming fall schedule, Zucker made the bold claim...
...choosing alternatives like cable, video games and the Internet, the challenge faced by NBC and Zucker is their most serious in at least a decade. Not only has the once geriatric CBS raced to the top of the network pack with its powerful CSI franchise, but perennial also-ran ABC has the season's sole breakout hits, Lost and Desperate Housewives, a steamy evening soap that Zucker passed on. If the ratings slide continues, it could put a dent in NBC's well-cultivated image as the upscale network of choice for Madison Avenue and make it hard...
DROPPED. MISS AMERICA, from ABC, leaving the iconic beauty pageant without a network home for the first time since its first televised pageant 50 years ago. The move, a result of sinking ratings, has the potential to devastate the 84-year-old nonprofit organization, which was financially dependent on its income from the annual broadcast. Pageant officials say they are optimistic that the show will appear on another channel...