Word: nbc
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That televised tirade would not have been remarkable coming from a public official demanding equal time. But it came from Len O'Connor, Chicago's most respected television commentator, and O'Connor used his regular evening-news spot on WMAQ-which happens to be owned by NBC-to castigate his employer of 34 years...
...following two evenings a fortnight ago, O'Connor again startled his audience of 725,000 by pressing his attack. He said that the network had "compromised my integrity," and excoriated his superiors-by name-for plotting to fire him. Said O'Connor: "If NBC had any guts, they would do it right now with some degree of honor...
Sagan was not ready to quit. He appealed to the FCC, asking for a reversal of the staff finding. During the summer, NBC lawyers in Washington began negotiating with Sagan's lawyers to give the publisher ah-time acceptable to him if he would drop his formal complaint...
When O'Connor learned about that backstage Washington dickering, he was livid. He felt that NBC, by seeking to avoid a fight before the commission, had created the impression that his case was weak. Counters WMAQ General Manager Len Schulman: "We're not going to defend every case in every court to protect Len's reputation...
...Connor, who has won a number of local Emmys and Illinois Associated Press awards, has stopped his televised attacks on the network for now but is threatening to sue NBC unless the network gives him a written promise that henceforth it will defend him whenever a viewer lodges a formal complaint. He argues that his contract already contains an implied assurance of support...