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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Cronin's bar and restaurant will undergo a major physical change," Victor Imhof, brother of the new owner, said yesterday. Although the kitchen, lounge and dining hall will be renovated, the bar will not close during the work...
...Harvard researcher who recently conducted experiments inducing bacteria to produce insulin--a major breakthrough in the field of recombinant DNA research--said yesterday that his research team will work toward developing techniques for isolating large quantities of the insulin...
...Television executives believe that the easiest way to win evening-news ratings points is to find, and keep, an anchor with that certain something -looks, sex appeal, credibility-that viewers like. A single ratings point in a major market like New York, Los Angeles or Chicago is worth more than $500,000 in yearly station revenues. When executives at Chicago's CBS-owned WBBM this year figured they would lose three evening-news ratings points if Anchor Bill Kurtis jumped to NBC-owned WMAQ, they won him back by counteroffering $250,000 a year. They considered it a bargain...
Some TV journalists wonder. One major complaint is that the more money anchors make, the less is left over for news coverage, a charge that station executives deny. "An individual's salary is a pittance in our budget," says News Director Norman Fein of New York's WNBC, which spends $13.5 million a year on news coverage. Yet disgruntled off-camera journalists at Los Angeles' KNBC figure that the salaries of the "talent," as on-camera personalities are known in the trade, account for nearly one-quarter of the station's $9.5 million news budget...
...WMAQ this month in the face of stagnant ratings and intense vilification by the city's acerbic TV critics. "He couldn't cover his nose, much less a fire," sniffs the Sun-Times's Swertlow. Yet many of the six-figure anchors, probably a majority, have had years of experience as reporters and still dash out of the studio like Dalmatians when a big story breaks. Washington's David Schoumacher put in two decades as a newspaper reporter and network correspondent before joining Washington's WJLA as anchor last year (at $120,000), and WBBM...