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Later this year ABC and NBC will introduce their own versions of the magazine format, which is basically an hour-long collection of documentary-type reports. In addition, Producer David Susskind is developing a personality-profile TV show for CBS based on PEOPLE magazine, and stations across the nation are pasting together local variations of the magazine genre. At this rate television may soon offer more "magazines" than the corner newsstand...
Perhaps the most ambitious entry in the 60-minute dash is ABC's new 20/20, an hour-long encyclopedia of news, personality sketches, investigative reports, cultural and sociological features and satirical skits, possibly by Chicago's Second City troupe. The show is expected to appear in June. Executive Producer Bob Shanks (ABC's Good Morning, America, public television's Great American Dream Machine) has approached at least a dozen candidates for the host job, including Washington Post Executive Editor Ben Bradlee, who turned down a $5,000-a-week salary and a promise that he could...
...coal industry's leading spokesmen to come to the White House Friday morning. There, in the Roosevelt Room, the guests met a formidable array of brass. It included Carter, Vice President Walter Mondale, Labor Secretary Ray Marshall, Energy Secretary James Schlesinger and Special Trade Representative Robert Strauss. In the hour-long session, Carter set a 6 p.m. deadline for settlement, without revealing his threatened countermeasures...
...signing of the executive order last week, Carter went out of his way to stress "my complete appreciation and confidence in Admiral Stan Turner." Carter sees Turner more often than previous Presidents saw their CIA chiefs. The admiral has briefed the President once or twice a week in hour-long sessions, usually alone. Turner prepares the agenda and spends ten to twelve hours reading background material for each session. According to a presidential aide: "Carter likes Turner's crispness, his grasp, his 'yes sir, no sir,' no-nonsense naval officer's style...
...White House, Carter talked amiably with Burns. Carter told the chairman of his ideas about what the Fed should be doing. Not until the end of the hour-long exchange did the President get to the point: he would not reappoint Burns, but instead would choose Bill Miller, whom Burns knows because Miller for seven years has been a director of the Boston Federal Reserve Bank...