Word: kuralt
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...free the Iran hostages, Sawyer's reports often wound up on the CBS Morning News. "I would sleep all night on two secretarial chairs so I could get up at 4 a.m., stalk the halls and see what I could get," she recalls. Her live exchanges with Charles Kuralt led to her being tapped as the show's co-anchor, and Sawyer made the leap from journeyman correspondent to network star...
...anchor with Kuralt and later Bill Kurtis, Sawyer helped boost the ratings for the No. 3-ranked morning show to their highest levels ever. Colleagues were impressed by her dedication. "She would show up at 2 o'clock in the morning and write her own copy," recalls a producer. "This was unheard of. There was no way you could not respect her." But she soon grew dissatisfied with the low priority the Morning News was given at the network and with the trivia she was sometimes forced to handle. "I thought this is not really what I should be doing...
...REMEMBER (CBS, June 23, 8 p.m. EDT). Charles Kuralt pulls off the road temporarily to reminisce about one week in history -- Aug. 10-17, 1969 -- in the pilot for a prospective series...
...Story Syndrome. When the networks scramble to outdo one another, they seem to lose a measure of perspective. The CBS Evening News, in particular, turned into an odd cross between PM Magazine and The McLaughlin Group, with Rather strolling around Red Square with his temporary co-anchor, Charles Kuralt, and sitting down each evening to gab with three correspondents about the day's events. Adding to the prepackaged, magazine- show look: Rather, unlike Brokaw and Jennings, taped his segments several hours in advance, so he could be seen in the bright sunshine rather than in the Moscow darkness...
ROUTE 90--I am Charles Kuralt. I am Jack Kerouac. I am Willie Nelson...