Word: kuralt
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...traditionally hard-news-oriented morning report, fashioned to compete directly against NBC's Today and ABC's Good Morning America. Produced by former GMA Soft-News Whiz George Merlis, the new Morning will feature Bill Kurtis, a peppy, popular newsman imported from Chicago, in place of Charles Kuralt, as well as such other contributors as ex-GMA Show-Biz Correspondent Pat Collins and regular business, science and medicine reporters. Merlis denies that Morning will be a confection like GMA. Explains a CBS spokesman: "We will interview celebrities only if they are in the news. For instance, if Larry...
...Heel spirit does not impinge upon UNC's fine academic environment. Although many other Southern institutions would refute Time magazine's assertion that UNC is the South's best university, remember that Walker Percy, John L. Clive (Kenan Professor of History and Literature), Charles Kuralt, Tom Wicker, and Thomas Wolfe graduated here. Andy Griffith is also among the school's illustrious alumni, and rumour claims that nearby Siler City provided the basis for the legendary town of Mayberry...
...Brokaw and PBS's Robert MacNeil and courted almost every other news star in the business. Signing Brinkley permits Arledge to go ahead with the new Sunday-morning show-scheduled to air from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. E.S.T.-providing an alternative to early-riser Charles Kuralt on CBS. On Friday night, incredulous ABC News staffers were still recovering from the shock waves. Said one: "I do not know why NBC couldn't find a way to accommodate him. He is the most eminent newsman." Many of Brinkley's colleagues at NBC bitterly agreed. Said...
...Charles Kuralt, 46, CBS Morning host, refuting constant descriptions of himself as "avuncular": "I'm fat and bald, but I don't think of myself as avuncular. It's too bad. I'd rather look like Rather. Of course, wouldn't anybody...
...commitment to 60 Minutes too, he has been taping so many segments in advance that his smile has lately seemed a little tenser. He also knows that around CBS there were those who would have preferred Roger Mudd (who, being passed over, defected to NBC) or the amiable Charles Kuralt, whose CBS morning news has become something of a hit. The other two networks are also in the mood for change, but are waiting to see how well Rather works...