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Viewers in Charlotte, N.C., who turn the dial this week looking for Tom Brokaw and Roger Mudd at 6:30 p.m. may not believe their eyes: in place of the NBC network's Nightly News, affiliate station WPCQ-TV will start airing Family Feud. And instead of the local evening-news lead-in, the station will offer Real People. Insists Lawrence Fraiberg, president of WPCQ's parent, Westinghouse Group W TV, the nation's biggest non-network station group: "This has nothing to do with our attitude toward news...
...newsmen reacted differently from their colleagues, willingly debating the pros and cons of their profession. One was NBC anchor Roger Mudd, the other was Robert MacNeil...
Many TV journalists are concerned that their colleagues' fascination with new gadgets capable of zooming and spinning images around the screen results in eyecatching but less informative newscasts. Says NBC Chief Washington Correspondent Roger Mudd, 54: "It would be a step backward if we succumbed to what I regard as the dangerous trend around on network newscasts, if we allow the pyrotechnics of television news to become more important than the news itself...
Next month John Chancellor, 54, will switch to a commentator's role, and NBC will launch a new anchor team: Roger Mudd and former Today Host Tom Brokaw, 41, who are already being touted as "the anchor team of the '80s." Muses CBS Evening News Executive Producer Howard Stringer: "We may be in the lead right now, but we cannot afford to be complacent. With Tom Brokaw and Roger Mudd starting soon, it certainly wouldn't take much to close the gap between our news programs." Only time and the Nielsens will tell. But some observers think...
Television journalists Frank Reynolds of ABC, Roger Mudd of NBC, Bruce Morton of CBS, and Robert MacNeil of the MacNeil-Lehrer Report, will probably attend. ABC news president Roone Arledge and former CBS news president William Leonard are also expected...