Word: chet
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...CAMPAIGN AND THE CANDIDATES (NBC, 6:30-7:30 p.m.). Chet Huntley and David Brinkley are anchormen for Floor Reporters Frank McGee, Sander Vanocur, John Chancellor and Edwin Newman in this convention preview from Chicago's International Amphitheater...
Feeding on Themselves. What ultimately separated the networks, of course, was the performance of their regulars. ABC staffers were the least authoritative and articulate. NBC, with its emphasis on the machinations of the floor, played down Anchormen Chet Huntley and David Brinkley and gave the ball to its fearsome foursome of floor reporters: John Chancellor, Frank McGee, Edwin Newman and Sander Vanocur. In the continuing absence of actual news, they desperately darted from delegation to delegation, chasing down the rumors that are always the prime medium of convention exchange. TV in general not only enabled rumors to feed on themselves...
...Anchorman Walter Cronkite and a team of 25 correspondents, including Eric Sevareid, Roger Mudd, Harry Reasoner and Mike Wallace, will report on the opening session today from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., and on the evening sessions throughout the week from 7:30 p.m. to conclusion. NBC, with Anchormen Chet Huntley and David Brinkley and Floor Reporters Frank McGee, John Chancellor, Sander Vanocur and Edwin Newman, will cover opening-day sessions (9:30 a.m. to end of daytime action and 7:30 p.m. to conclusion) and portions of the week's activities live from Convention Hall. ABC will limit...
AMERICAN PROFILE: HOME COUNTRY, U.S.A. (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Are America's grass roots withering? This documentary, ranging from Maine to Texas, examines the philosophy, traditions, individuality and skills of some people who have always lived close to the rural community where they were born and raised. With Chet Huntley. Repeat...
Fuzzy picture of Chet Huntley in Paris. "This is Chet Huntley in Paris," says the picture, relayed to New York via communications satellite at a cost of $122.50 per minute. Switch channels. Fuzzy picture of Walter Cronkite, also in Paris, also costing $122.50 per minute. Neither had anything of substance to report about the Viet Nam peace talks that had brought them to Paris. Television never looks so hollow as when it focuses on an event that takes place behind closed doors or in men's minds. But there they were, along with more than 1,300 accredited newsmen...