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...Phillips delivered a stunning on-air apology for its report on the safety of GM trucks, which showed a pickup catching fire in a test crash but did not reveal that incendiary devices had been attached to the vehicle to help ensure a blaze. A week later, anchor Tom Brokaw expressed his regrets for several aspects of a Nightly News report about environmental abuses on an Idaho river. It featured footage of "dead" fish -- but the supposedly deceased denizens of the deep were only stunned as part of an experiment. Clearly, someone's head was due to roll...
...four dominant decades. If CBS managed to win him, the network would be a competitive factor in late-night TV for the first time. Casual viewers studied the subtleties of Letterman's contract and debated NBC's knotty dilemma: Stick with Jay or switch to Dave? NBC anchorman Tom Brokaw couldn't escape the subject even during a vacation following his reporting sojourn to Somalia. After a day of "birding and fishing and dodging hippos" in a remote area of Botswana, Brokaw said, a guide noticed his Late Night cap and asked, "Do you think that Letterman is going...
Peter Jennings can't do it. Neither can Katie Couric. Tom Brokaw at least ! gives it a try. "Yes, I can program my VCR," he says, "but only for the 1956 version of What's My Line...
...past 30 years. Now he seems poised to break a few more, acknowledging his interest in purchasing the network that has been his home for so many years: NBC. General Electric, which has owned the network since 1986, continues to insist it is not for sale. But Norman Brokaw, chairman and CEO of the William Morris Agency, which represents Cosby, says the entertainer is still interested in assembling partners and obtaining financing. Possible price tag: $4 billion. "Bill Cosby enjoys producing and creating things," says Brokaw. "He has some ideas about quality television. He'd heard rumors of others wanting...
Tuesday brought interviews with Marvin Bush,the president's youngest son, and with Tom Brokaw,NBC anchor. The next two days would bring moreinterviews, more stand-ups, more reports...