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...single largest paycheck anomaly between the U.S. and other countries is in the salaries of television journalists. CBS's Dan Rather gets $800,000 a year, Tom Brokaw at NBC close to $1 million and Co-Worker Jessica Savitch $600,000. Their counterparts in West Germany earn no more than $45,000, or $38,000 in Britain. And that...
Next month John Chancellor, 54, will switch to a commentator's role, and NBC will launch a new anchor team: Roger Mudd and former Today Host Tom Brokaw, 41, who are already being touted as "the anchor team of the '80s." Muses CBS Evening News Executive Producer Howard Stringer: "We may be in the lead right now, but we cannot afford to be complacent. With Tom Brokaw and Roger Mudd starting soon, it certainly wouldn't take much to close the gap between our news programs." Only time and the Nielsens will tell. But some observers think...
...Clare the young bride, brokered into marriage by her mother, growing up fast as the battered wife of alcoholic Millionaire George Brokaw...
...three networks are now about on a par in the ratings, with CBS hoping to build on the narrow lead it enjoys under Dan Rather, with NBC about to replace John Chancellor with Tom Brokaw, and with Arledge still seeking the right anchormanly combination. There is no assurance of a sweet resolution of anxiety...
Sticking to her story, Williston was well ahead of everyone else with the report that Sadat had died. About ten minutes later, as an increasing number of sources around the world began to relay the same word, it was Tom Brokaw's turn to press Correspondent Art Kent on whether he had heard the news "from an official spokesman, or are we all beginning to repeat each other?" Over at ABC, Frank Reynolds explained: "We are obliged to give you information that may turn out to be inaccurate." At moments, the frustration and uncertainty swamped their syntax. Pointing...