Word: anchors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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France's leading anchor out-Cronkites Cronkite...
...were other distractions in Thurmont besides the absence of news. The press center dispensed cheap booze (35? for a beer, 50? for hard stuff). Idle journalists could walk the length of Thurmont's main street in about seven minutes or gawk at ABC's Barbara Walters and Anchor Frank Reynolds as they tried to negotiate the town's narrow streets in their matching chauffeur-driven Fleetwood limousines...
PEOPLE OF THE LAKE by Richard E. Leakey and Roger Lewin Anchor Press/Doubleday; 298pages...
Phonies or not, many anchors lead professional lives that are nasty, brutish and short. Maury Povich left Washington's WTTG 18 months ago for a $70,000 anchor spot at WMAQ in Chicago, quit after a year over a salary dispute, signed on with Los Angeles' KNXT for $150,000, was fired six months later during a ratings slump, and is now looking for work. "They put their guts on the line every day, and they know that if the ratings fall they could be gone just like that," says WBBM Station Manager David Nelson, snapping his fingers...
...future of the anchor profession itself is not assured. Station managers and news directors will be watching closely this week when ABC News introduces its new network evening-news format, which will replace two New York-based anchors with four regional supercorrespondents. More and more stations are buying electronic gear, like minicams, that makes it easier to cover breaking news "live," a move that some TV journalists say will diminish the anchor role...