Word: cohosts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...requiring that new televisions be equipped with a V chip to help parents block out offensive programs, and a deal in which broadcasters agreed to provide three hours of educational children's television a week. In a televised forum on school violence on MSNBC with Tom Brokaw as cohost, after the Littleton tragedy last year, Gore startled his staff by blasting the network that ran the program for refusing to agree to the ratings system...
That is not all that is changing at Today. The set is being redesigned ("Something more comfortable, less formal and sterile," says Producer Friedman), and the show's sometimes clunky script virtually thrown out in favor of ad libbing. Jim Hartz, Walters' intelligent, bland cohost, will hit the road to find Charles Kuralt-ish features. Interviews will be shorter, and a battery of specialists (on science, health, sports, travel, consumer affairs) will be brought in. Says Friedman: "If we can't be spontaneous, we're in trouble...
...show as a writer in 1961. Always eager, ready and hardworking, she became an on-camera interviewer within three years and began racking up a notable series of interview coups with Mamie Eisenhower, H.R. Haldeman and Anwar Sadat. NBC belatedly canonized her in 1974 as the show's cohost, along with Jim Hartz...
...year NBC career frequently crossed McGee's, but their roles on Today will be different. McGee insisted on being the sole host. "Frank had trouble working with a woman at first," explained Barbara Walters. Jim has no reservations about being Barbara's cohost, nor has he any plans yet for suggesting format changes. "I seldom get to see the show," he said somewhat sheepishly, "because I'm a late sleeper...