Word: nbc
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...NBC evening duet by Chester Robert Huntley (New York) and David McClure Brinkley (Washington) presents the news with unusual (for TV) restraint: its stars are both unexcitable men who seldom pontificate but project an air of unassuming authority and easy informality. "I'm a newsman using TV as my special medium," says Chet Huntley. The key to their success is the fact that they are pros (both have spent most of their working lives as newsmen of the air, with early stints on newspapers) dedicated to the principle that news is not show business...
...panoramic view of the news, more inclined to pundit. This comes out most in his own Sunday show, Time: Present -Chet Huntley Reporting, in which he explores predominantly heavy subjects: integration, world trade, public education. A graduate of Western broadcasting (Seattle, Los Angeles), he was brought East by NBC in 1956 to do the Sunday show, is one of TV's best-paid newsmen (total annual income...
...People Paid Attention."The Huntley-Brinkley combination is the product of pure chance. In 1956, planning coverage of the national party conventions, NBC decided to send in some fresh faces, dispatched Huntley from New York and Brinkley from Washington, expecting them to spell each other. They made it a team operation, brought off the assignment so handsomely that NBC decided to make them a habit. (Said Brinkley wryly of this sudden prominence: "I did what I'd been doing for years, but people paid attention.") In October 1956, Huntley and Brinkley-who had not even met before their paths...
Staccato (NBC, 8:30-9 p.m.). As one of the new private eyes, Johnny Staccato (Actor John Cassavetes) spends 30 seconds at the piano, 30 minutes stalking Dean Stockwell, who plays a bartender suspected of hunting his free lunch with a pocket knife on the sidewalks of Greenwich Village...
Pontiac Star Parade (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Victor Borge pursues an elusive tulip through this Scandinavian travelogue, and, once arrived at his Danish castle, settles down to some hilarious monkey business...