Word: anchors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...boycott was sparked last October by the demotion of Harry Porterfield, a black newsman who co-anchored WBBM's 6 p.m. weekday program. The station moved Porterfield to weekend anchor chores to make room for the returning Bill Kurtis, a former WBBM anchor who had left his post in 1982 to join the CBS Morning News. When the disaffected Porterfield was wooed by rival WLS-TV, WBBM offered to boost his salary to $300,000. After WLS again raised the ante, reportedly to a five-year contract worth more than $2 million, Porterfield opted to join WLS as a reporter...
...Unless you had a particular anchor in Cambridge, you wouldn't decide to come here with such high rents," Hines says. She says that though the amount the city spends on human services--$44 million, including $39 million for health and hospitals--has increased in the last year, the rise represents a five-year trend and cannot be attributed to any major influx of immigrants...
...reason was familiar and chilling: a murderous blackmailer intent on intimidating a corporation by poisoning its products. A man calling himself Gary telephoned ABC News claiming he had placed 25 tainted Contac capsules in stores throughout the country. ABC Anchor Peter Jennings tipped off SmithKline while judiciously holding the story off the air. The next day, SmithKline got more calls, apparently from the same man. All capsules were unsafe, he said, and he wanted to get them off the shelves...
Many critics complain that putting anchors in the middle of the story is simply an exercise in promotion. Says Andrew Stern, who teaches broadcast journalism at the University of California, Berkeley: "There's nothing that Dan Rather or Tom Brokaw can add to the Manila story that the guys covering the Far East can't." Network executives disagree. "The purpose of sending an anchor is in large part to say this is an important story," says ABC's Wald. The anchors, too, claim their presence can enhance a story. "You've got three activist anchormen," says Brokaw. "We all come...
...urge to travel is not likely to go away. The networks are faced with growing competition, not only from one another but from aggressive local stations and independent news services. Showcasing the anchor in remote locations is one way for a network to demonstrate its uniqueness. Still, major trips will probably remain special occasions, at least for the near future. "We have to pick our opportunities carefully," says Bill Wheatley, executive producer of the NBC Nightly News. "We can't be a constant road show...