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...White Paper No. 4 (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). A look at state legislatures, their purposes, problems and procrastinations, narrated by Chet Huntley...
...peahen from the Bronx Botanical Gardens to Los Angeles' Griffith Park. On show after show, NBC's symbol of color television appeared, while announcers crowed about the network's Color Day, every show a bottled rainbow. For once the soap operas were literally purple, and even Huntley and Brinkley gave hues of the news...
...best of the television newscasters. But aside from Edwards, the network, which pioneered in television newscasting and for years stood a tall first in the field, is now losing out to its competitors. During the Kennedy inauguration last month, NBC's news team of Chet Huntley and Dave Brinkley drew more viewers than CBS and ABC combined; in Election Year 1960. Huntley and Brinkley consistently topped CBS at the party conventions, all during the campaign, and on election night as well. The rise of Huntley and Brinkley has exposed CBS's weakness. Said a rival network executive last...
...proteges imitated his sepulchral tones and adopted his left-of-center emotions; the so-called "Murrow Boys" included Eric Sevareid, Charles Collingwood and Larry Le Sueur. The Murrow style has long since come to seem stale, and the proof lies in the widespread acceptance of the far more informal Huntley-Brinkley format. But CBS's problems go even farther back. When Sig Mickelson joined CBS in 1949, he began trying to build his own news organization, and a Murrow-Mickelson rift developed that was never repaired. In 1958, Murrow's program, See It Now, was dropped; Murrow himself...
...minute, granted all three networks the first simultaneous rise in years. CBS, with a 4% increase in audience size over the same period last season, retained its lead with a nighttime Nielsen of 20.1. ABC, registering an impressive 15% gain, nearly closed the gap with a 19.2 rating. NBC, Huntley-Brinkleymanship and all, dropped into third place, with a 17.3 average and a mere 1% increase...