Word: gumbel
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ratings' climb can be traced partly to the growing success of NBC's prime-time fare; according to a broadcasting maxim, some morning viewers watch whatever station they left the dial on the night before. The show has also profited from hitting the road. Pauley and Co-Host Bryant Gumbel broadcast the program live from Rome for a week in early April, then Gumbel traveled solo to Viet Nam to mark the tenth anniversary of the Communist takeover. In late May the Today stars and staff -- 47 people in all -- traveled 2,500 miles on a specially outfitted train through...
...networks provided live pictures from Viet Nam, but the costs did not seem worth it. NBC News spent an estimated $1.2 million for its live coverage, including four Today programs, with Bryant Gumbel as host, from Ho Chi Minh City. ABC News paid about the same, mostly for four Nightline shows from Indochina and reports on Good Morning America. CBS decided against live broadcasts, relying instead on taped segments (and spending only about $450,000). Howard Stringer, executive vice president of CBS News, said that his network believed live coverage in a restricted society like Viet Nam's promised...
...live coverage was not so much propagandistic as it was unenlightening. Today's Gumbel, sitting in semidarkness and encircled by a cloud of bugs, spent much of his on-air time introducing taped segments. Koppel's interview with Tho illustrated the perils of live TV: the Vietnamese official was able to ramble on because Koppel was plagued by a faulty communications hookup and could not break into the harangue...
...crew at his general audience and expressed his hope that the media exposure in the U.S. during Holy Week would "bear much spiritual fruit." After a semiprivate Mass under Michelangelo's frescoes in the rarely seen Pauline Chapel, the Pope met briefly with Today Hosts Jane Pauley and Bryant Gumbel, both of whom asked the Pontiff to bless their children. Also present was Pauley's usually camera-shy husband, Cartoonist Garry Trudeau, who afterward remarked, with a trace of awe in his voice, "He was not like somebody working the crowd at all. He really greeted each...
...news. But all that Rather, Brokaw and Jennings demonstrably gained by being on the scene was successive three- minute interviews with Secretary of State George Shultz, which could probably have been conducted via satellite from their studios in New York City. For NBC's Today Anchor Bryant Gumbel and ABC's Good Morning America Anchor David Hartman, who also moved their shows to Geneva, the rewards seemed even slimmer...