Word: nbc
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...NBC News Presents. "You're Too Fat," an examination of lard in America. Ch. 4, 10 p.m. 1 hour...
...Editors of the Chicago Tribune last week wished that they could have called back an item in their March 24 Sunday magazine. Appearing five days after the death of former NBC Anchor Man Chet Huntley, the piece related an interview with Huntley last fall, including some critical remarks about his battles with conservationists over a planned Montana resort ("In the past three years, Huntley has gone from being a national hero to something of a local villain"). A prefatory note told readers that Huntley had undergone surgery for cancer last December and quoted a friend as saying...
...NBC brought Huntley to New York in 1956, ostensibly to compete with CBS'S Edward R. Murrow. But a chance pairing with Washington Correspondent David Brinkley at the 1956 political conventions made television history. Huntley's informed earnestness was the perfect foil for Brinkley's wry wit. Enthusiastic viewer response prompted NBC to reunite the team on the evening news in October. The program's sign-off ("Good night, Chet"-"Good night, David") soon became a slice of Americana. The Huntley-Brinkley Report consistently clobbered the opposition networks in ratings and won every major award available...
...season's critical success. A Case of Rape attracted a record-breaking audience for a realistic, if dramatically ill-resolved, study of the one crime in which the victim can almost count on being further punished by the legal system. Finally, with The Execution of Private Slovik, NBC managed to flack its way into the mightiest flop of the year. Mistaking sober intentions for genuine achievement, the network promoted the film heavily. It turned out to be a long, soggy script about a pathetically masochistic G.I. who became the only American to be shot for desertion in World...
...Died. Chet Huntley, 62, for 14 years co-anchor man of NBC'S immensely popular Huntley-Brinkley Report (see THE PRESS...