Word: co-anchor
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...insider, "went after Brokaw money, marbles and chalk," in an attempt to sign him up for ABC's multiple-anchor World News Tonight team, which occasionally includes the fast-rising Ted Koppel. But NBC responded in kind. The top brass urged a willing Chancellor to give up his New York anchor position by April 1982, six months earlier than planned, to make way for Brokaw. After discussions with NBC News President Bill Small, Nightly News Washington Co-Anchor Roger Mudd, who went to NBC in a huff after losing the CBS anchor spot to Rather less than two years...
When David Brinkley, 60, left his co-anchor post at NBC Nightly News last fall for the pastures of commentary, industry observers speculated that perhaps the network was tiring of his detached, low-key delivery. Brinkley was not sorry to leave after 24 years: "I had been doing it longer than anyone dead or alive," he says. "And I didn't feel that I was doing anything that required any great skill. It was too easy...
...Newsman John Chancellor is usually in the public eye with his co-anchor David Brinkley, but he gamely agreed to wing it with a macaw named Bob. The occasion was a fund-raising luncheon for the New York Zoological Society, which is dedicated to protecting endangered species and displaying animals in natural environments. Chancellor, a devotee of wildlife preservation, had no trouble with the boa constrictor and the tarantula that came to lunch. The macaw, however, was for the birds. "Neither one of us expected to have our picture taken together," said Chancellor. "He bit me, just to show...
...move long-bruited, Roone Arledge, the energetic president of ABC Sports, was put in charge of the network's news division. Arledge will retain his sports job and succeed ABC News President William Sheehan, who last year hired Barbara Walters for $1 million a year to co-anchor the Evening News with Harry Reasoner. Sheehan is being demoted to senior vice president for news...
...reaction from the press, Quinn has heard little from people at CBS. Aside from Hughes Rudd, her co-anchor on the show, to whom the book is dedicated, only Mike Wallace has called her. Quinn portrays him as a boorish sexist who sniped at her continually behind her back at CBS. "He said that he was sorry, that he hadn't realized I felt that way. I think he was stunned by my perception of him." Don Hewitt, a producer who went with Quinn to London as her director for the coverage of Princess Anne's wedding, and who Quinn...