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...color most onlookers skeptical. For one thing, the newcomers must vie for hard-core political junkies and insiders, who represent relatively few eyeballs. And this narrow slice of the market is being sought by such heavyweights as ABC, the Washington Post and CNN, each of which has a big Web presence, to say nothing of countless nonprofit sites that are chockablock with the skinny on your Representative's latest vote. "I liken the new sites to the specialty stores you see at Christmas," says Preston Dodd of Web watcher Jupiter Communications. "You wonder what they'll do after the elections...
Bush is so proud of his can't-we-all-get-along politics that when ABC's George Stephanopoulos gets on the plane in New York City, he needles him for helping defeat his father but thanks him for driving him to jogging in order to wash the bitterness over the loss out of his system. "Getting over any grudge," he says, "was important because voters can tell if you want the job for the wrong reason. They can tell if you're dark and brooding, or if you're optimistic and happy...
Here is CBS, reaping a summer-ratings bonanza with Survivor (and lesser returns with Big Brother). ABC, which doesn't need much help since it began airing Who Wants to Be a Millionaire 24 hours a day last August, had a quasi-documentary series called Making the Band this spring. But NBC does not have a single example of that oxymoron "reality TV" on the air. Nothing to try out this summer. Nothing for the fall, either. The peacock network is momentarily without feathers--and so desperate that it seems ready to import Chains of Love, a "funny" bondage...
...conventions will also receive less network attention this year than they have in the past. ABC and CBS will each carry five hours of live primetime convention coverage, while NBC will televise only the last two nights for two and a half hours of total coverage...
...work cut out for us. Even on the day of Armstrong's victory, the major American networks couldn't be bothered with Tour coverage; ABC followed Tiger Woods' admittedly rollicking win at the British Open with auto racing while NBC and FOX fiddled around with various ball-related games. CBS was locked out of British Open coverage but found a way to bore us anyway with "The Story of Golf" (a repeat, I might add), which ran from 2:30 to 5 in the afternoon. Prime Sunday advertising territory - lost to a rerun...