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...replaced as the main NBC newscaster by the Huntley and Brinkley team...
...HUNTLEY GILL Lawrenceville...
Despite its apparent poverty, the FCC does have some legal authority over the men in the limousines-and occasionally exercises it. In a recent letter, the FCC sharply rebuked the National Broadcasting Company for not informing viewers that Chet Huntley had substantial cattle interests when he went on the air to criticize tough new federal rules on meat inspection. In another peremptory communication, the commission asked the three major networks-NBC, CBS and ABC-to respond within 20 days to "hundreds of complaints" of "bias" in their coverage of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago...
Monday, August 26 Opening sessions of the Democratic National Convention from Chicago. NBC will colorcast the convention proceedings from start to finish with Huntley, Brinkley, McGee, Vanocur, Chancellor and Newman reporting; CBS will do the same, with Cronkite leading Analysts Mudd and Sevareid, Reporters Wallace and Reasoner. Smith and Lawrence will report on ABC's nightly 9:30-11 roundup, with Buckley and Vidal commenting...
...Huntley and Brinkley are off the air, their show abruptly shelved. Lawrence Spivak, Mike Wallace and Curt Gowdy are fired outright. Edwin Newman is still on the payroll but restricted to covering baseball. Howard K. Smith has been forcibly retired, and Eric Sevareid has been rusticated to the local sta tion in Keokuk. In their place are unknown third-stringers, providing bland, cursory newscasts culled from the wire services. Translated from the French, that is the situation U.S. televiewers would face this week...