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...suggestions can't be made about appearance. If scientifically done polls indicate that someone's appearance or age is turning off sets, why shouldn't a private company be able to fire that person? Men should not be exempt from this standard and in fact are really not. Roger Mudd, some observers say, lost his NBC anchor job to Tom Brokaw because of age and local sports commentator Don Gillis, who is in his 50s, lost his job to a younger person for no other apparent reason...
...second with 20% each. But then, if the promotional hype is discounted, the new season for TV news is not much of a change. Jennings has been anchoring ABC's show for two months, and Brokaw has been NBC's co-anchor (with the ousted Roger Mudd) for more than a year. Rather has been in place since March 1981. CBS News President Van Gordon Sauter cautioned, "There will be a lot of viewer sampling, and we will not know the outcome for a couple of months...
...demotion of Roger Mudd as anchorman on NBC News [Aug. 8] reinforces my opinion that David Brinkley, Chet Huntley, Walter Cronkite, John Chancellor and Edwin Newman would never be hired if they were starting out today. They are not pretty enough...
Among the TV news anchors at NBC, Roger Mudd was the most believable. His voice was pleasant and his enunciation perfect. Without Mudd, NBC will slip...
Your NBC sources are wrong about who was responsible for the change in format of the TV news anchor at the network. I never lobbied for a change in my arrangement with Roger Mudd on Nightly News. The change was initiated by NBC News management...