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...lagging in third place in the superheated evening-news ratings race, could ill afford to lose an asset like Brokaw. Just how far the network was willing to go to keep him became clear with last week's announcement that Brokaw will take over John Chancellor's anchor slot on NBC's Nightly News. The precedent-shattering deal was reportedly for as much as $15 million in salary and benefits over seven years, making Brokaw the highest paid TV newscaster in history.* Said a weary Brokaw when all the negotiating was over...
...Brokaw about 60 Minutes and its planned, half-hour Up to the Minute, an afternoon news show aimed at women. ABC News President Roone Arledge, according to one insider, "went after Brokaw money, marbles and chalk," in an attempt to sign him up for ABC's multiple-anchor World News Tonight team, which occasionally includes the fast-rising Ted Koppel. But NBC responded in kind. The top brass urged a willing Chancellor to give up his New York anchor position by April 1982, six months earlier than planned, to make way for Brokaw. After discussions with NBC News President...
...group of conservative economists is trying to make gold again the anchor of the world's monetary system, a position it held during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Says Lewis Lehrman, a wealthy businessman and sometime consultant to the Reagan Administration...
...shot!' " CBS Anchorman Dan Rather was attending a breakfast meeting with network affiliates in Los Angeles when Senior Executive Producer Burton Benjamin tapped him on the shoulder. Rather raced to the nearby CBS bureau, where a satellite link with New York was hastily arranged so that he could anchor the day's reporting from Los Angeles. NBC'S John Chancellor delivered a series of news bulletins throughout the day from his New York anchor desk...
...great-grandnephew of the gold rush outfitter Levi Strauss, Haas built the jeans-making firm into a sportswear conglomerate that had $2.8 billion in sales last year. Haas, whose family is an anchor of Bay Area society, quietly serves on corporate and charity boards. In a limited partnership with Son Walter J., 30, and Son-in-Law Roy Eisenhardt, 42, he acquired a team that was a smouldering shambles. Finley lost or traded away its talent. The farm system had gone to seed. The Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum had fallen into such disrepair that the scoreboard did not always work...