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Died. Morgan Beatty, 72, reporter and NBC radio broadcaster; in St. Johns, Antigua. As a military expert for the Associated Press during World War II, Beatty accurately predicted both Hitler's assault on Russia and the successful Soviet resistance. Later, he reported Roosevelt's choice of Harry Truman as his 1944 running mate before even Tru- man knew about it. But his biggest scoop was never broadcast: sailing home from the 1945 Potsdam Conference on a naval vessel with Truman, Beatty guessed that an atomic bomb was to be dropped on Hiroshima when Truman interrupted a poker game...
Early in 1973, Washington Post Reporter Sally Quinn went to a party at the Manhattan home of Barbara Walters, queen of NBC's morning Today show. Quinn noticed that her hostess's bedside alarm clock was set for 4 a.m. "If they paid me a million dollars, I would never accept Barbara Walters' job," she told a friend that night. "That is simply no way to live...
...tale, she does have some grounds for griping. First she was wooed to TV at a series of high-powered executive lunches with CBS Vice President Gordon Manning (who was transferred to another job at CBS shortly after the Quinn fiasco and is now an executive producer for NBC). Then she claims to have been thrust on the screen with almost no coaching, no voice lessons and hardly a word from Morning News Producer Lee Townsend about the technical details of broadcasting. She reports that she did not even know the meaning of the little red light that indicates when...
...then, is Tuscola's tiny WITT plunging into that high-priced circle? Last week, for the first time, all-news radio was brought within the means of every 50-watt hymn-and-hog-price station in the nation. NBC, which has been taking losses since 1973 on its network radio broadcasts, is trying to reverse those fortunes with a round-the-clock, syndicated all-news package. News and Information Service, as the venture is called, originates from the old Monitor studio in Rockefeller Center and is fed live over telephone lines to subscribing stations for 50 minutes of every...
...included irregularly spaced servings of national and international news from network correspondents, as well as book and movie reviews, interviews with Jerry Lewis and Pearl Bailey, features on natural childbirth and photography, and a two-part series on the war against cancer. Says NIS Director Roy Wetzel, who designed NBC's all-news package: "People will listen to radio news for more than an hour if you provide them with something interesting...