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Then the McGovern forces went to bed, tired but very satisfied, remembering what David Brinkley had said in NBC's summation of the evening: "There are now three serious candidates for the Presidency in this country: Richard Nixon, Edmund Muskie and George McGovern." Even if it was unfair to Humphrey. Jackson and Lindsay, nobody was complaining. The next morning all would be on a plane on the way to Florida...
...administrations, however, than at any other point in history. The first FCC board boasted an old Bullmooser, George Henry Payne, and did insist on reviewing past station performance when renewing station licenses, even if the task was (and is) too difficult for a single committee. Such quacks as Dr. Brinkley, the animal glands peddler who could have been the governor of Kansas, received justified revocations...
...been trying to pick up the pieces of its nightly network newscast ever since Chet Huntley retired to Montana a year ago. What he and David Brinkley provided was a happy accident, a memorable blend of sonorous seriousness and acid wit. In their early ratings and in their personal chemistry, they were a hard act to follow. So hard, in fact, that last week NBC abandoned the plural approach to the evening news. For the first time in 15 years, it will go with a single anchor man. In mid-August, veteran Newsman John Chancellor gets...
...will replace an interim troika composed of himself, Brinkley and Frank McGee. NBC News President Reuven Frank insists that the change has nothing to do with ratings. (Since 1968, two years before Huntley left, CBS has had a small but respectable lead in the evening-news audience. The standings have not changed appreciably with the Chancellor-Brinkley-McGee format...
...indirectly the catalyst for the news shakeup. Downs wanted a break to relax, write and lecture. "We would have kept going under the old format for another year," says Frank, but Downs was adamant about quitting. "I coaxed Frank McGee," Frank admits. McGee takes over Today in October. Brinkley, meanwhile, will assume the job of "commentator" for NBC News. Next month David Brinkley's Journal will be seen as a separate segment of most of the nightly newscasts, NBC's riposte to Eric Sevareid at CBS and Howard K. Smith at ABC. Brinkley will also do four...