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...ABC News producer, Gerstein said thatalthough Harvard was receptive to the new law in1991, the University might fight tooth-and-nailagainst further reforms...
...function. They are the flagship broadcasts for the network news divisions, they showcase well-paid and highly respected news stars, and they still make money. Though their ratings have dropped steadily, the decline has been less steep than the slippage in network viewership overall. In the latest Nielsen ratings, ABC's World News Tonight (ranking second behind NBC's Nightly News) was watched by 7.5% of the nation's TV households. An average hour of ABC's prime-time schedule was seen by just 6.8%. "A significant number of Americans are watching [the nightly news]," says NBC News president Andrew...
...ABC News executives are mulling a radical overhaul of their two successful magazine shows, merging PrimeTime Live and 20/20 into one program (most likely called 20/20) and expanding it to four or even five nights next season. The revised show may also include at least a few minutes of the day's news at the top of the hour. "It's one of the most important decisions ABC has confronted in recent years," says News president David Westin, "or will confront for some time to come...
Shortly after becoming ABC News president in 1977, Roone Arledge proposed that the network's struggling evening newscast be switched to 10:30. (The idea didn't fly, and Arledge created Nightline instead.) Former NBC News president Lawrence Grossman recalls that in 1990, after leaving NBC, he suggested to CBS chairman Laurence Tisch that the network should move its evening news to 10 o'clock, where it would get a bigger audience. (Tisch listened, but nothing came of it.) "There has to be some change in the structure we now have," says former CBS News president Van Gordon Sauter, "where...
...ABC cancel the piece? Two days before his scheduled interview with Walters, Furth was bounced from the Jonesboro case by presiding judge Ralph Wilson, who declared that the lawyer, not shy about talking to the press, was not acting in the boy's best interest. Furth says he was told, "We don't practice law in Arkansas like that." BILL HOWARD, a public defender originally appointed by the court, remains Mitch's counsel. But Furth says he believed he still represented Mitch's parents (who are divorced) and continued to speak to the media, including ABC News and TIME...