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When Veteran Newscaster David Brinkley, 61, abruptly announced earlier this month that he was leaving NBC News after 38 years, he pointedly scotched any retirement rumors. He was going home to Washington, D.C., he said, 'to do what I've always done-cover politics." Last week beaming ABC News executives confirmed that, come November, he'll be doing just that for them. Brinkley's assignment: anchoring a new, hour-long successor to Issues and Answers on Sunday mornings, providing political commentary for ABC World News Tonight, and, in 1982 and 1984, doing what he has always...
News of the deal surfaced just hours before John Chancellor wound up NBC's Nightly News last Friday with a fond farewell to his colleague: "As a writer, he is simply the best. As a stylist, he is impossible to imitate." Quite true, but Brinkley's NBC bosses seemed almost to have forgotten that during the past year. In fact, it was their growing indifference that finally prompted his exit. Insiders reported that he was frustrated with the network's back-burner treatment of his NBC Magazine with David Brinkley. The show was pitted first against...
That will not be a problem at ABC, which seems to have granted him everything NBC refused. Brinkley's switch marks a major victory in ABC News President Roone Arledge's drive to build what he calls "the best bench in town." In the past two years, Arledge has tried to hire Dan Rather, Tom Brokaw and PBS's Robert MacNeil and courted almost every other news star in the business. Signing Brinkley permits Arledge to go ahead with the new Sunday-morning show-scheduled to air from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. E.S.T.-providing...
...Christie Brinkley pitches beer
...Anheuser-Busch's Natural Light feature Cover Girl Christie Brinkley, 27, who fills a red-and-white-striped bathing suit with come-hither bust, hips and thighs. "You don't have to be some macho jock to like Natural Light," says Brinkley in one television commercial...