Word: formatting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After years of wrangling over the format of the negotiations, the talks began with a general goal of cutbacks to 700,000 ground troops for both sides and a proportional amount of equipment. Within days the major problems appeared that persist almost unchanged today...
...dual-anchor NewsHour premiered the same Labor Day evening that the networks offered solo-anchor shows for the first time since 1976. That singular difference in format, however, seems less striking than two other qualities: the leisurely, almost ruminative pace of the NewsHour, vs. the breakneck momentum of the commercial networks; and the prominence given to live interviews, vs. the commercial networks' almost exclusive reliance on rigorously edited scripts and footage. For all that, the content of the four newscasts last week was similar. All stressed the aftermath of the Soviet downing of a Korean Air Lines passenger...
...fundamental question that NewsHour must answer, for PBS stations that resisted the expansion and for audiences who liked it as it was, is why the producers gambled with a proven success. MacNeil admits to having felt personally "confined" by the old format. Says he: "The half hour had a clear role, but it was always intended as just a foot in the door." Now that the door is open the show must trace a clear path...
...format devised by Silverman and Thicke seems designed to be all things to all young people. It attempts to combine the insouciance of David Letterman with Carson's unflappability, mixed with generous helpings of Saturday Night Lives repertory company and rock music, plus the shtiks and skits of SCTV. The show's symbolically apt set, with its crisscross scaffolding, tacky colors and potted ferns, is a hotel-lobby hodgepodge...
Your NBC sources are wrong about who was responsible for the change in format of the TV news anchor at the network. I never lobbied for a change in my arrangement with Roger Mudd on Nightly News. The change was initiated by NBC News management...