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...past, high-visibility newscasters were wooed mainly for anchor spots on the morning and evening news shows. Now they are being groomed as prime-time stars. Shows are even being constructed around them, the way Hollywood studios in the '30s used to create vehicles for their contract stars. Chung has been promised the anchor job on a soon to be reconstituted version of West 57th, CBS's low-rated magazine show. Sawyer will co-anchor, with Sam Donaldson, a new prime-time news hour on ABC, scheduled to debut in August. Williams will be one of several co-anchors...
Okay, TV-news fans, get out your scorebooks. A new round of star wars is in full swing at the network news divisions. CBS, in desperate need of a female power hitter, last week grabbed one of the league's best, Connie Chung, from NBC. She will fill a gap in the CBS lineup opened last month when Diane Sawyer left to join the burgeoning Murderers' Row at ABC. Meanwhile, NBC, looking to compensate for Chung's departure, found no superstars on the trading block but managed to land a solid .280 hitter, Mary Alice Williams, formerly...
Their salaries are mind-boggling. Chung, who was making $1 million at NBC, will reportedly get in the neighborhood of $1.5 million a year at CBS, roughly the same as what Sawyer is said to be getting from ABC for leaving her post at CBS's top-rated magazine show, 60 Minutes. That puts both of them behind only Barbara Walters (more than $2 million) as the highest-paid women in TV news. Even Williams, coming from low-paying CNN, will ring up a respectable $500,000 or so annually at NBC. "We are watching a profound shift...
However expensive they become, the star wars seem sure to continue. ABC, which recently hired not only Sawyer but also NBC correspondent Chris Wallace, has been dubbed the hot network for its aggressive talent raids. NBC, having lost both Wallace and Chung, is hurting. Staff morale is low, and some warn that the network's tightfisted attitude will doom it to the news-ratings cellar. Gartner insists that NBC is not opposed to paying high salaries to the right people but argues, almost quaintly, that by rejecting Chung's money demands, the network cast a vote for old-fashioned news...
...Japan's invasions on the peninsula ended up with Tokyo colonizing its neighbor from 1910 until 1945, forcing Koreans to adopt Japanese beliefs, Japanese words, even Japanese names. In fact, the man given the honor of carrying the torch into the Olympic stadium was, symbolically enough, Sohn Kee Chung, the Korean who won the 1936 marathon running reluctantly under a Japanese name and flag and who became a symbol for Korea's resistance...