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...Minute, an afternoon news show aimed at women. ABC News President Roone Arledge, according to one insider, "went after Brokaw money, marbles and chalk," in an attempt to sign him up for ABC's multiple-anchor World News Tonight team, which occasionally includes the fast-rising Ted Koppel. But NBC responded in kind. The top brass urged a willing Chancellor to give up his New York anchor position by April 1982, six months earlier than planned, to make way for Brokaw. After discussions with NBC News President Bill Small, Nightly News Washington Co-Anchor Roger Mudd, who went...
...minutes that followed the first bulletin, CBS-TV, then ABC and NBC interrupted soap operas and game shows with special reports that echoed painfully in the memory. Journalists were dismayed by the similarity with the shooting of President Reagan just six weeks earlier. Said ABC-TV Anchorman Ted Koppel: "We have all too much experience with this kind of story...
...guitar overshadows the news from Poland, Iran and Washington tonight." Thus did Walter Cronkite begin his CBS Evening News broadcast Dec. 9 with the story of how Musician and former Beatle John Lennon had been shot to death in New York City. At ABC and NBC, Anchormen Ted Koppel and John Chancellor started their newscasts the same way, placing Lennon ahead of the latest developments in negotiations for the release of the American hostages and the threat of a Soviet invasion of Poland...
...Kalb & Koppel...
Flindt's doomsday piece documents the death of a small town-or perhaps the end of the world-to a rather syrupy, amiably melodic pop-rock score by Thomas Koppel. Shrouded in a black plastic mantle, Death stalks, pointing, closing doors, and in general mopping up human fallout from air pollution. In one scene a rich man strips and frantically slathers his body in red disinfectant. The much-vaunted nude orgy takes place in a boutique where women tussle greedily over clothes and jewels. It occupies about four of the work's 80 minutes...