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After eight successful years, MacNeil-Lehrer goes to an hour...
...yearned to expand their evening news shows to an hour. But affiliate stations repeatedly refused to yield lucrative air time, and the hour daily network newscast remains a daydream. That standoff has given the noncommercial Public Broadcasting Service a chance to top its giant rivals: last week Anchors Robert MacNeil and James Lehrer doubled up their MacNeil-Lehrer Report, a nightly half hour on some single topic that was the most widely viewed program on PBS, into a multi-issue roundup, The MacNeil/Lehrer Lehrer NewsHour. Though envious, the commercial networks applauded. Said NBC News President Reuven Frank: "We hope...
From its inception in 1975, the MacNeil-Lehrer Report was seen by ABC, NBC and CBS as a noncompetitive follow-up to their newscasts. Indeed, some ads for the PBS show even urged viewers to watch a network newscast first. But now, in cities including New York, Washington, Miami and New Orleans, the NewsHour airs at the same time as the network shows and seeks to steal some viewers away. Says MacNeil: "We got tired of being only a supplement to the networks, and wanted to become an alternative...
DIVORCED. Robert MacNeil, 52, TV journalist and co-host of PBS's nightly MacNeil/Lehrer Report; and Jane Doherty MacNeil, 42, antiques dealer and photographers' and jewelers' agent; after 18 years of marriage (his second, her first), two children; in White Plains...
Reported by Douglas Brew and and Neil MacNeil/ Washington Washington