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Whether that is true or not, Sally Quinn was an undisputed success as a society reporter, despite her total lack of experience. When CBS contacted her in 1973 about a position as co-anchor of the newly revamped CBS Morning News, she told Gordon Manning, CBS' news director, "I have the perfect job at the Post, I'm deliriously happy there, and I have no intention whatsoever of leaving." But she did agree to discuss the offer, and the lure of $60,000 a year, the distinction of being the first anchorwoman on TV (Barbara Walters is not, technically...
...Here they are, the first pictures of our cosmonauts!" With that exuberant introduction, Veteran Soviet Anchor Man Yuri Fokin, 50, Moscow's properly graying, avuncular counterpart of U.S. television's Walter Cronkite, began his commentary on the first live broadcast from the orbiting Soyuz. Fokin's enthusiasm was typical: no event in recent years had been so ballyhooed by the Kremlin as the Apollo-Soyuz linkup...
...glasses is at the time. Either "It Don't Worry Me" is a stirring cry of survival, or the horrible chant of a wired mass for whom murder doesn't matter. Or a million other things, but the cookbook crowd tried frantically to answer this question, because the only anchor they could find in this plotless, characterless, messageless mass was that Nashville was about "America." America is very big this summer, maybe, but it's a frustrating theme for people accustomed to motion pictures telling them what to think. They find themselves babbling absurdly when they try to talk about...
...Expenses. One important reason that relatively few stations have adopted the format, despite its impressive success, is its equally impressive cost. Instead of a skeleton crew of disc jockeys and rip-and-read announcers, an all-news station typically has platoons of street reporters, anchor persons, helicopter-borne traffic spotters, weather analysts, consumer reporters, writers, editors, directors and producers. New York's WCBS, for example, has 60 editorial employees, nearly three times its pre-all-news complement, and Chicago's WBBM went from 32 staffers to 64 when it made the switch in 1968. Says WBBM General Manager...
Weightmen Kevin McCafferty. Dan Jiggets and Captain Steve Niemi anchor down the muscle department for the squad, whereas Kent Womack and Lance McGinnis, both from Yale, will be in charge of the spear-chucking chores...