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...network anchorman as we know it today was invented one night in 1965 when CBS' Walter Cronkite conducted television's first regular half-hour newscast as if he had been born at his desk, all-wise and all-seeing. The anchor concept has held firmly, and for network and local newscasts everywhere, that...
Brokaw also reports for the NBC "Nightly News," and was previously anchorman for the NBC "Saturday Night News...
Brokaw's other duties include being stand-in for John Chancellor, anchorman for the NBC "Nightly News," a position Brokaw admitted he would like to hold. But Brokaw added that the position can be tedious, describing it as "putting on makeup and reading out loud...
...lining their newspaper vending machine out of nonwhite neighborhoods. Nor does he hesitate to bite the CBS hand that feeds him. He has accused the Tribune's TV critic of being soft on the CBS-TV station; he has twitted his network's leading local anchorman for commentaries distinguished only by "implication and innuendo." The Sun-Times stopped accepting massage parlor ads after Madigan protested, and the voiding of parking tickets among reporters dropped sharply after a Madigan expose...
...plane back in time for the Monday newscast. "We were sunk by a goddam jet," grumbled a producer at NBC. (The network got to Sadat only in time for the following night's broadcast.) NBC did manage a satellite conversation on Monday between Begin and Anchorman John Chancellor, taped only minutes after the Israeli had finished with Cronkite. NBC had to borrow the same hotel room and satellite lines that CBS had arranged for. Sniffs a CBS spokeswoman: "We didn't even charge them for the room...