Word: anchormanly
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...Walters from competing networks. Its evening newscast, despite a confusing succession of changes in format and anchors, moved steadily upward in audience numbers. And in 1979, during the Iranian hostage crisis, ABC launched network TV's first regularly scheduled late-night news program, the provocative, high- voltage Nightline, with Anchorman Ted Koppel...
Rather, with his tense, incisive delivery and the backing of a better news staff, has a steady ascendancy in the ratings over his gentler anchorman rivals, Tom Brokaw of NBC and Peter Jennings of ABC. (Yet when occasions require it, Brokaw, perhaps as a result of his long early morning servitude on the Today show, is a better interviewer.) The right wing's enmity toward Rather, based on things like the time he impudently sassed back President Nixon, makes some conservatives eager to buy CBS just to control him. Such is the presumed influence of men hired to report...
Former President Gerald R. Ford, CBS News Anchorman Dan Rather, New York City Mayor Edward L. Koch and former Loch University Professor Archibald Cox '34 were among the show's panelists...
Most of the journalists strongly opposed a suggestion that the Defense Secretary accredit in advance all reporters and photographers who cover combat situations. They also objected to a proposal that U.S. citizenship be a requirement for battlefield correspondents representing U.S. news organizations, a rule that might have prevented ABC Anchorman Peter Jennings, a Canadian citizen, from covering the Viet Nam War between...
...various youth groups. Ticket sales of 5,797,823 broke the Moscow record (5,466,321) and left Montreal in the dust (3,195,170). Considering high ratings-90% of all American households had the Games on at some time-ABC seems unlikely to press for a boycott rebate. Anchorman Peter Jennings and the whole fall schedule have been shirt-tailing to glory...