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...officially installs the former Today host as Tom Brokaw's substitute on the Nightly News, fueling speculation that she may someday be co-anchor...
...Francisco is not the only epicenter of this distress. Deborah Norville, new co-anchor on the Today show and a closet accordion player, assaulted her audience with a blunt instrument rendition of the dreaded Lady of Spain. No earthquakes were reported, though the performance succeeded in further sinking the show's shaky Nielsens, while Norville's personal Richter rating slid glissando-style to C below low A, somewhere to the left of the keyboard...
...viewers already against her. And they don't seem to have changed their minds: after nearly four years as the top-rated morning show, Today has slipped in the past six weeks to No. 2, behind ABC's Good Morning America. CBS, in the meantime, has dumped its morning co-anchor, Kathleen Sullivan -- oddly, just when the program's third-place ratings were inching upward. Sullivan, whose last day was Friday, will be replaced by a relative unknown: Paula Zahn, who has been doing the newscasts on Good Morning America...
...took over as executive producer last month. "Part of the audience is happy, part of the audience is sad, and usually the ratings drop." CBS This Morning also has a new executive producer, who is expanding the show's feature and entertainment coverage; the hope is that a new co-anchor will lure viewers to sample the broadcast at a time when they might be shopping for alternatives...
...glitzy, hour-long Roll Call airs a regular segment on the FBI's Most Wanted List that, with the aid of computer graphics, profiles suspects in various disguises -- beards, glasses and hairpieces. "We provide officers with important information when they need it -- before they hit the streets," says co-anchor Maffett, 1983's Miss America. The network also serves up half-hour instruction programs with names like Street Beat, Command Update and Alert, Alive & Well. Relying on 50 experts nationwide, the shows dish out training information on everything from shooting techniques and handcuffing methods to weight-control strategies. A twelve...