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...network may be competing against entertainment programming on another. Similar arrangements will be in effect for the Republican Convention in Dallas in August. The networks' reasoning is simple: gavel-to-gavel coverage is very expensive, and the number of viewers it attracts, in the words of NBC Anchor Tom Brokaw, "has been diminishing and diminishing...
...term power lunch. Says he: "Power lunches are for those who have enough power not to go back to work." The house softball squad, Les Lapins Sauvages, plans to come out of semiperpetual retirement during the convention to take on an Eastern media team headed by NBC Anchorman Tom Brokaw. Eligibility rules for the Square squad should give Brokaw cause for optimism. Says Dietsch: "You have to be a drinker and over 40, or at least have a doctor's certificate to prove partial liver damage...
...acquisitor of political endorsements, publicly spurns his most passionate devotees. Across this land some 10 million cigar smokers yearn for a front-page picture of Mondale, the only dedicated cigar smoker among the Democratic contenders, with his Punch panatela at a defiant angle. Or maybe 30 seconds on Tom Brokaw's news, showing a sweet cloud of Partagas No. 1 smoke carrying off the burdens of another campaign...
Indeed, corporate pay can seem modest by comparison with what entertainers, athletes and TV personalities earn with their mass appeal. Former Beatle Paul McCartney croons to the tune of an estimated $45 million a year. NBC Anchorman Tom Brokaw makes a reported $2.2 million, almost three times as much as his boss, RCA Chairman Thornton Bradshaw. Running Back Herschel Walker gets $3.9 million over his three-year contract with the New Jersey Generals. Team officials point out that Walker easily earns his salary by boosting ticket sales...
...forecast the outcome of races, often in advance of any actual tally, based on "exit polls" of people leaving voting places. While the real polls were still open, John Glenn was virtually decreed out of the race by reporters, including ABC's Jennings and NBC's Brokaw in live interviews. Said Glenn: "When you people make projections like that, it discourages an awful lot of good folks from going to the polls...