Word: nbc
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rated Brad Crandall show on WNBC last week, he fielded stupid phone calls from listeners like a real pro. Over and over, of course, Labunski kept warning that "the views expressed do not necessarily refleet those of management." That was funny, since Stephen B. Labunski is the president of NBC Radio...
Striking Spots. In addition to NBC's Labunski, there was old Arnold Zenker again (TIME, April 7), filling in for Walter Cronkite and doing a pretty good job of telling the news too. True enough, some of the other substitutes sounded like sweet young office secretaries or shipping clerks trying to be discovered. For compensation, there was a sense of humor about it all. Public Affairs Man ager George Heinemann, who had taken over WNBC-TV's evening weather shows, couldn't help looking like an elderly but appealing high school boy hauled up to the front...
...networks were offering $300 and 25%. For the announcers, the industry's proposal of $220 a week was within $5 of the union's demand. AFTRA also was asking networks to maintain announcers solely for their FM stations, a demand that management described as "blatantly featherbedding." By NBC's reckoning, "The effect would be the hiring of three additional men to handle a total of two hours work each week." At any rate, the picketers were not exactly eligible for the welfare rolls. Even under the currently expired old contract, the announcers and newsmen in 1966 averaged...
...cadre of journalists in an effort to start up a separate union. He didn't make any progress last week. In fact, 48 newsmen sent him an open protest letter headlined: "Where Were You, Mr. Huntley?" Predictably, annoyance at times gave way to acrimony. Jim Hoffman, an NBC time salesman who took over the llth Hour News on WNBC-TV walked into Hurley's, the broadcasters' favorite Sixth Avenue bar-and into an earful from striking Newswoman Liz Trotta. "Why are you being rough on me?" he asked her. "Well I'll tell you," huffed Trotta...
...associates explained that Carson "thrives on topical humor. He looks like an idiot talking about Christmas in those old tapes they have been using." That sounded reasonable, except that Carson had never complained before about the chopped-up, ad-ridden Tonight repeats that NBC runs every Sunday night of the year. At that point, Carson, who was lolling out the strike on the beach at Fort Lauderdale, came up with another and loftier justification of his stand. "I was required to join AFTRA in order to work for the network," he said. "I know of no business except the broadcasting...