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Utley could be a sentimental family favorite: he is the son of NBC Chicago Correspondent Clifton Utley and former NBC Reporter Frayn Utley. He is also an experienced newsman. Utley's relaxed, occasionally eloquent style apparently appealed to Today watchers. His mail is running 1,010 pro, only...
...only been a year since he was plucked from Los Angeles' KNBC to compete with CBS's Dan Rather, Brokaw's success surprised network executives. "Many of us did not realize that he had such poise, wit and delightful humor," burbles Schulberg. Among those who matter-NBC Board Chairman Julian Goodman, President Herbert Schlosser, News President Richard Wald-Brokaw is also thought to have "more magnetism and impact" (read sex appeal). That could be a formidable edge...
...host will not do commercials, neither will she. (Walters modestly denies veto power, though she adds: "I have talked some with Dick Wald and Herb Schlosser.") Today's trials are nearly over. Researchers are currently conducting viewer surveys, and by the end of the month, NBC expects to say an official good morning to Jess, Ed, Bill, Doug, Jim, Tom, Tom or Garrick...
Joan Ganz Cooney, 44, revolutionized children's television in 1969 when she began producing Sesame Street for the Public Broadcasting Service. A former NBC publicity director, she now presides over the nonprofit Children's Television Workshop, Inc., which produces 130 segments of Sesame Street and 130 of Electric Company each year. Elegant and outspoken, Mrs. Cooney has served on the President's Commission on Drug Abuse and was recently appointed to the media-monitoring National News Council. In the past year she has formed two C.T.W. subsidiaries to produce shows for commercial TV and ease Sesame Street...
Barbara Walters, 43. "I didn't have a blazing talent, marvelous beauty or great ease," admits the ubiquitous television broadcaster. "I got where I am by hard work and perseverance." Co-host since April of the NBC Today show, whose daily audience is estimated at 10 million, she also conducts her own daily half-hour show, Not for Women Only, which has broken new ground for TV by exploring such controversial topics as male sexual dysfunction and police-community relations, and has also probed into the changing social and economic roles of women. Boston-born, Walters graduated from Sarah...