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...recently as 1981, only outsiders (and Johnny Carson) were cracking jokes about NBC. An air of frantic desperation hung over the place as then Chairman Fred Silverman threw onto his schedule, and then pulled off, one expensive flop after another. To the savviest TV producers, "it was as if NBC didn't exist," recalls Gary David Goldberg (Family Ties). "We didn't go there with an idea, because we knew it would be crucified." Silverman, who had earned a reputation as a programming wunderkind at CBS and then ABC earlier in the '70s, was also scalded by the boycott...
...three sunrise coffee klatches, has mounted a strong assault on longtime ratings champ Good Morning America at ABC, while the CBS Morning News continues to flounder with the abrupt departures of Anchors Bill Kurtis and, last week, Phyllis George. The Saturday-morning kidvid schedule remains No. 1. Carson is still king of late-night, and Letterman the hippest of clown princes. Only daytime is a slum for profits when it could be a gold mine; ABC's supremacy with its afternoon soaps helps it lead NBC in total network profits, despite the tailspin ABC has taken in the evening. Recently...
Dish owners enjoy a staggering variety of programs. Not only can they receive all the regular and cable channels, but they get a potpourri of other broadcasts riding the satellite waves. Some of these are not put out by regular channels. Viewers can watch Johnny Carson audience warm-ups that never make NBC's Tonight Show, for example, or N.F.L. football games blacked out in their area. A top-of-the-line dish can even pull in Soviet TV, complete with news programs, ballet, and tank demonstrations...
...they advised the Nevada Republican on one of the toughest decisions of his public career. In the end, neither family members nor G.O.P. leaders could persuade Laxalt, 63, to make a third run for the Senate. "I have paid my dues," declared Laxalt as he announced his decision in Carson City last week. "My independent Basque soul cries out for more freedom...
Other speculation on Laxalt's withdrawal focuses on his $250 million libel suit against the Sacramento Bee and two sister newspapers. A 1983 Bee article alleged that nearly $2 million was skimmed from the Ormsby House, a casino- hotel Laxalt established in Carson City after his gubernatorial term ended in 1971. Laxalt denies that the suit has any bearing on his announcement, but the case is moving toward trial, and the newspaper, in support of its case, has amassed boxes of potentially embarrassing notes and documents...