Word: nbc
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...titled Don't Count the Candles, was shown in 21 countries and earned six awards (including two Emmys after its 1968 appearance on CBS). His second, which is called Love of a Kind and concerns Britons' infatuation with pets, can-and should-be seen on NBC's First Tuesday next week...
Pursuing a rumor that "something is up down south," NBC Correspondent Welles Hangen and a camera crew left Phnom-Penh one morning last week, close behind a Jeep and a Mercedes carrying Syvertsen, CBS Reporter-Producer Gerald Miller and their crew. Unlike Viet Nam, where intelligence information is relatively good, the situation in Cambodia is fluid and newsmen are virtually on their own. When the two groups came to the last roadblock of Cambodian soldiers, they presumably flashed their press cards and headed on, unaware that North Vietnamese and Viet Cong troops had moved into the area. The convoy...
...except for the potential importance of CATV to the nation. Since conventional TV must broadcast to large audiences, it must seek programming with the broadest possible appeal. As of now, for instance, there will be no original theater on network TV next season because no sponsor has been found. NBC has canceled perhaps its most literate situation comedy, My World and Welcome to It, because it pulled too small a following−a mere 21 million. Since it costs less to operate and can be aimed at a specific audience, cable TV could, for a charge of a few dollars...
...ended when the latest Nielsen report came in. By its own calculation, CBS had won for the 15th consecutive season-by .2%. "This is the greatest thrill of my 21 years in programming," crowed Mike. In his exultation he added: "I think I could have elected Humphrey." Over at NBC, Paul Klein snorted: "They didn't win the season. They won their season. This is what McLuhan called 'the dinosaur effect.' CBS has blown to its biggest size just before extinction." Industry evolution has indeed swung toward the Klein emphasis on demographics. In February, Dann...
...criticism" are beginning to get to him. He does not know exactly where he will go, or when. "It could be days, weeks, or even years," he said last week. All he really needs, as a sign-off, would be a truce luncheon and a first meeting with his NBC nemesis, Paul Klein. As might be expected, Klein has already vetoed any such possibility. "I don't want to meet Mike," he says. "I might like...