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There's quite a temptation to elevate symbols over reality, especially when you call yourself Peter Jennings or Dan Rather and you're standing in a trenchcoat next to the Wall, reporting on live network television. But the primary obstacle to reunification was never the Wall itself, but the yawning...
From the moment in 1963 when CBS became the first network to expand its 15- minute nightly newscast to half an hour, visionaries there and at rivals NBC and ABC began to talk of the logical next step: a full hour of news. A quarter-century later, they are still...
THE WORLD TODAY (CNN, debuting Oct. 16, 6 p.m. EDT). Ted Turner's 24-hour news channel made its reputation by being around when the networks weren't. But now it tackles Rather, Jennings and Brokaw on their own turf, with a new hourlong evening newscast.
Today, as the networks fight to retain their dwindling audiences, prime-time news programming is becoming more desirable because it costs only about half as much to produce as entertainment fare. And to compete in the glitzy arena of The Cosby Show and Dallas, stars are a must. Other entertainment...
On the evening newscasts, too, stars are being hyped more than ever. Facing growing competition for the news viewer -- from cable outlets like CNN, aggressive local stations and syndicated shows -- the networks are trying to stress what makes them distinctive: namely, their anchors. That's why Rather, Jennings and Tom...