Word: nbc
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...excitement, and precious little for a white, middle-class audience to identify with. Just two blacks, father and son, running a junk shop in Los Angeles and playing a continual, if affectionate game of oneupmanship. Yet NBC's Sanford and Son, which premiered in January, is already one of TV's top ten shows. With so much seemingly going against it, what does Sanford have going for it? Above all, it has Redd Foxx...
Reverse Alchemy. Violence is holding its own. Five crime and Western shows are being canceled by the networks, but another six are being added. TV's medical corps, on the other hand, is definitely growing. NBC plans The Little People, about a Hawaiian pediatrician and his pediatrician daughter, and ABC has Temperature's Rising, about the chief surgeon in a big city hospital. Both shows will combine the medical genre with the situation-comedy formula. The only new programming of a serious nature is an hour on NBC that will alternate between NBC Reports and Alistair Cooke...
...networks are also persisting in the reverse alchemy that so often has turned movie gold into weekly dross. An hour-and-a-half round robin of mystery shows on NBC will include Richard Widmark in a series called Madigan, adapted from the 1968 detective film in which he starred. On CBS, MASH, the grisly 1970 comedy about a troupe of Army surgeons in Korea, is becoming a half-hour situation comedy starring Alan Alda...
...appointees of the twisted coverage to come. As Keogh perceives it, those fears proved more than justified. He exempts some publications and individuals from criticism, such as U.S. News & World Report, FORTUNE, the Chicago Tribune and the New York Daily News, Columnists Max Lerner and Joseph and Stewart Alsop, NBC's Herbert Kaplow and ABC's Howard K. Smith. But he indicts big journalism generally-not for a liberal conspiracy, as some do, but for a "condition of conformity" that bends the news to fit liberal preconceptions. He expends most of his ammunition on six influential offenders from...
...primaries because they have the ingredients of a suspense story. The press, in fact, has become the unofficial arbiter of the results, deciding who wins and who loses in races where the real meaning of the outcome is bound to be murky. Savoring this new-found power, NBC News Vice President Richard Wald has half humorously suggested that the primaries be held at the convenience of the press: Southern primaries should take place in the winter. Only when the spring thaw begins should reporters have to make the blustery trek north to New Hampshire and Wisconsin...