Word: nbc
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...away in dark screening rooms, watch dozens of hours of pilots for new shows, then emerge, red-eyed but exultant, to announce what the American public will see in the fall. Last week both ABC and CBS ended their ceremonies with the traditional flourish of self-congratulatory press releases; NBC was due to announce its schedule this week. This year, however, the ceremony seems more like a rehearsal than the real thing: Fred Silverman, the high priest of programming, has yet to make his entrance, and everybody in TV is waiting for Freddie...
Hired away from ABC by NBC last January, at a reported salary of $1 million a year, Silverman has assumed enormous, almost mythical dimensions in an industry noted for its downbeat cynicism. "Freddie is going to change the face of network television," proclaims Producer James Komack (Welcome Back, Kotter...
Unfortunately, the myth will not be tested for another month. Silverman's contract with ABC does not run out until June 8, and he does not become the new president of last-place NBC, the all-thumbs network, until the day after...
Should television be liable for inspiring such violent crime? Last week the Supreme Court cleared the way for a jury to try an $11 million negligence suit filed by the victim, Olivia Niemi, and her mother, Valeria Pope Niemi, against NBC and the Chronicle Publishing Co., owners of KRON-TV. Niemi's lawyer, Marvin Lewis, charges that by depicting a graphic rape scene in a movie aired at 8 p.m., when many children are watching, the network and the station are responsible for her daughter's rape...
...NBC contends that the First Amendment should be an absolute bar to the Niemi suit. But the California Court of Appeal disagreed, ruling that Niemi was entitled to a jury trial. Last week the high court refused to review the decision. In doing so, the court was making no judgment on the merits; apparently it simply wanted to hold off until the case runs its course in the California courts. But whether in this case or another, the Justices someday will have to decide just how much the First Amendment protects publishers and broadcasters when life contagiously imitates...