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...past 16 months running the CBS Morning News. His plans for the evening show are not yet clear, but many insiders expect that Dan Rather -- who will mark his 10th anniversary in the anchor chair this week with little fanfare -- will be shoved aside or teamed with a co-anchor within the next few months...
More Jane? Sounds impossible. No one in TV has been harder to avoid, either on the tube or in the press, over the past few months than Jane Pauley. For 13 years, she was the perky, professional, largely taken-for-granted co-anchor of NBC's morning show Today. When turmoil in the person of a blond, eager-to- please interloper, Deborah Norville, 32, engulfed the show last fall, Pauley bowed out -- and suddenly found herself the most in-demand news personality in America. She got her own prime-time show, which has drawn good ratings this summer...
...affiliate. She specialized in farm stories, anchored a Saturday-night newscast, and found herself the butt of jokes by a local radio personality named David Letterman. After three years at the station, she caught the eye of executives at Chicago's WMAQ-TV, who were looking for someone to co-anchor the evening news. A few days after her audition, Pauley got a call from the station's news director, offering her the job and a salary more than triple what she was making. Recalls Pauley: "He said, 'By the way, what are you making now?' I told him. There...
Last week the network took a big step toward acknowledging that fact by outlining a plan that could lead to her becoming co-anchor of the evening newscast. Officially, the anchor's chair will continue to belong only to Tom Brokaw, who has held the post since 1982. But to boost ratings and, NBC said, to exploit Brokaw's skills as a reporter, the network plans to send him out on the road far more often: at least three times a month. Whenever he is away, Pauley will serve as "sub-anchor." Says Nightly News executive producer Steve Friedman...
...last year. I was gone over a third of the time. I will travel when there is a compelling reason." When Gartner met with executives of affiliate stations last week, he hinted that a formal promotion for Pauley may follow. Asked if she might be named official co-anchor, he replied, "Never say never...