Word: gumbel
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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First, let it be known that Bryant Gumbel doesn't spend every hour of the workday in the nattiest Joseph Abboud suit. On a midsummer morning at CBS's Manhattan studios, he is wearing slightly wrinkled cotton trousers and a golf shirt as he heads an editorial meeting for his new weekly prime-time newsmagazine show, Public Eye with Bryant Gumbel (CBS, Wednesdays...
...GUMBEL GAMBLES...
...news anchor, quick on his feet, efficient, not too warm and fuzzy. Prefers not to work with loud weathermen, late-night talk show hosts or Deborah Norville. Remuneration: estimated at about $5 million a year. After two months of golf, deliberation and negotiations with the three big networks, BRYANT GUMBEL has found a new place to hang his fedora: cbs. He will be host of a prime-time weekly newsmagazine show and has formed a company with the network to produce other programs. "I'd be lying if I said I wasn't somewhat sad about leaving a place that...
...solution to NBC's abominable television coverage was to buy a second VCR. We taped each program as it was aired and meanwhile watched our videotape of the previous program, fast-forwarding through all of Bob Costas, Greg Gumbel, the advertising and the fuzzy-pictured sob stories. What a relief! ROBERT I. LOUTTIT St. Helena Island, South Carolina...
...family--which traces its lineage to 1964 Preakness champ Northern Dancer--until giving up the track for a life of dressage and show jumping. To further nail the female audience, NBC brought back the soothing, soft John Tesh, formerly of Entertainment Tonight, a far cry from the prickly Bryant Gumbel and downer sidebars on orphans aired during the Korean Games in 1988. It is hard to forget that Tesh's expertise runs more to the marriage of rocker Tommy Lee and Baywatch's Pamela Anderson than to hard news when he uses "histrionics" to mean history...