Word: broadcasting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Reagan continued campaigning, with brief stops in Manchester, N.H., Charlotte, N.C., and Chicago. Meanwhile the Federal Communications Commission was heard from. Now that Reagan is an announced candidate, said a spokesman, TV stations might have to give Ford equal time if they broadcast any of Reagan's 50-odd films, or even reruns of Death Valley Days, on which he was a narrator and occasional pitchman for 20 Mule Team Borax...
...Chicago Tribune, a reputation as the wolf-man of the air waves−the sourest, crudest ravager of the medium since Spiro Agnew put away his thesaurus. Deeb's daily diatribes, now syndicated to 60 papers, do not merely dissect new shows but also provide inside accounts of broadcast-industry greed, timidity and assorted other failings. Deeb has described lavish network press junkets in embarrassing detail, disclosed power struggles at local stations, and even exposed the suppression of an abortion documentary at WON, the Trib 's own TV outlet...
When he is not watching the 23-inch Zenith console in his bachelor apartment near the Tribune Tower, Deeb prowls the corridors of local broadcast stations seeking out disgruntled producers, reporters and even advertising salesmen. "Reviewing programs is the least important part of the job," he says. "I love to expose fraudulent, shoddy practices...
Deeb began learning about broadcast practices at age 16, when he became an unpaid announcer at a Buffalo public TV station. He went to the Trib in 1973 after three years as a critic for the Buffalo News. Now 30, Deeb is one of the few radio and television reviewers on U.S. newspapers (out of an estimated 80 or so) who do anything more enterprising than rewrite network press releases. Characteristically, Deeb has not neglected to blast his colleagues either. He has called them "fuzzy-headed boobs whose minds were sealed shut at birth." Not too surprisingly, Deeb...
...stance was half performance, half genuine, but it also served the practical purposes of generating drama and allowing him to earn money. Since leaving the Governor's office in January, he has written a weekly column published in more than 200 newspapers, recorded daily five-minute radio talks broadcast by about 200 stations, and made more than a hundred speeches to Republican audiences for fees of up to $5,000 plus expenses. In all, he grossed about $1 million from those activities, a nice raise from his $49,100 salary as Governor...