Word: nbc
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Cooling It. Such minuses were not allowed to mar the fact of the President's extraordinary appearance on television. To sit down with Eric Sevareid of CBS, John Chancellor of NBC and Howard K. Smith of ABC, and plumb live the intricacies of foreign policy for an hour, bespoke presidential confidence -and courage. No tape editor could erase a presidential slip that might occur on the special set at a KABC studio in Hollywood, where the temperature had been lowered on request to 59° before air time. When the red lights of the TV cameras winked...
...report broadcast Tuesday by NBC had indicated that G. Alexander Heard, chancellor of Vanderbilt University, would tell the President that neither school would be able to function next year because of student unrest and that he would blame Vice-President Agnew's rhetoric for much of the unrest...
Frank Jordan, NBC Washington Bureau chiof, said the network would stand by the report...
...deliberately trying to stir his audience. In one vignette, a curmudgeonly lady remarks that upon her death, she wants her 35 dogs "quietly put to sleep." Unfortunately, one of the film's strongest scenes, depicting two bachelor roommates breakfasting with their pet monkey, has been edited out by NBC...
...become a vice president of Joan Ganz Cooney's Sesame Street operation. His precise duties are still to be determined, and he will earn only about one-quarter of his CBS salary. Dann brings with him scheduling savvy, promotional wizardry (he started in the business in the NBC publicity department) and competitive fervor-all traits much needed in noncommercial television...