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...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...
...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...
...Today sought to interview a typical Soviet family, they were introduced to Autoworker Yevgeni Solinezin, 48, who is a Communist Party member with a comfortable apartment. He and his wife Nina, a former flight attendant, have traveled extensively in the West, and their son Oleg is an artist. Said Gumbel: "Based on our admittedly limited observations, Yevgeni's situation seems more idyllic than typical...
...Although Gumbel handled most of his encounters with aplomb, he was flummoxed by Zoya Zarubina, a member of the Soviet Women's Committee. She snorted derisively at his questions about the general exclusion of women from high Soviet office and in imperious, almost unaccented English contended that Soviet women are more likely than U.S. women to receive equal pay for equal work...