Word: anchors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When Barbara Walters joins ABC'S Evening News next fall, she will be the highest-paid woman ever to anchor a national news program-but not the first in the world. For more than a year, Angela Rippon, 31, has been the Barbara Walters of the British Broadcasting Corp.'s evening newscasts. There is one major difference between the two women: while Walters will get $1 million a year for her efforts, Rippon makes the standard BBC reporter's salary of less than $14,000, not counting a $127 annual clothing allowance...
...unrefined science in Britain, and the ITV'S news had long been considered by critics to be livelier and more imaginative than the starchy BBC, known in the trade as "Aunty." In 1972 Aunty tried to go trendy by installing a Huntley-Brinkley-type team of two anchor men, modernizing its set and spicing up its copy with breezy backstairs language. But when the old BBC starch was gone, what was left proved limp and ITV'S inroads continued...
...shipboard sex with Howard Hughes. Porn Queen Amber Hunt and Mobster Mickey Cohen both graced one of last week's shows with filmed interviews, she on what thrills, he on forged wills. The zest of MetroNews comes from the ham and hard-boiled-egg match-up of extrovert Anchor Man Charles Rowe, 37, and Reporter-Inquisitor Charles Ashman, 40. A bionic-perfect baritone, Rowe is the ideal foil for Ashman, a sardonic "everyman" who shows up each night with yesterday's stubble. Operating in a seedy city-room set torn from The Front Page, they go about earning...
Will entertainment values also prevail in network news when Barbara Walters takes her anchor spot on ABC in the fall? Not necessarily. Walters has shown herself a strong, no-nonsense interviewer. At NBC she had the clout to summon the powerful, and the assurance not to be overawed by them; such a role would suit her better than merely reading the news. Moreover, on all three networks, news is viewed with real responsibility. The big three among network anchor men-Walter Cronkite, John Chancellor and Harry Reasoner -scorn show-biz gimmickry. At most, these personally cheerful fellows can be accused...
...pages. Anchor Press/Doubleday...