Word: nbc
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sourest Grapes: From executives at CBS and NBC who accused top-ranking ABC of running junk-then launched a desperate search for the same kind of junk...
...less than $10. A Rolls-Royce? Don't ask. So what's a fella gonna do at Christmas time but ask Santa for a raise? Which brings us to Johnny Carson, who has been put-putting along on only $1.5 million a year. Last week jolly old NBC raised its No. 1 star a cool $1 million, to $2.5 million...
...correspondent-a snippety, jigsaw process he considers "challenging but not rewarding." He wants to be a commentator. Last summer, with the approach of Eric Sevareid's retirement, CBS News President Dick Salant talked to Chancellor about the job. Chancellor was intrigued but decided to stay with NBC, and in his new ten-year contract has the assurance of shortly becoming a commentator. As for CBS, unable to get either Chancellor or Bill Moyers, Salant decided not to fill the 2½-minute Sevareid spot: "After all, it's 10% of our news hole...
...committee has also protested similar tactics in the In Search of... and The Outer Space Connection programs aired by NBC. Though also broadcast as entertainment, one 'show clearly supported the idea that the huge drawings on Peru's Nazca plains could have been made only with the help of ancient visitors from outer space. It stressed that no one has figured out how else the figures could have been created, though German Mathematician Maria Reiche has demonstrated that the Nazcans would have needed no outside help. Still another program showed pictures made by a process called Kirlian photography...
...NBC is not the committee's only target. It has challenged the claims by Psychiatrist-Writer Immanuel Velikovsky that the planet Venus was once a comet that swept close to the earth, causing flood, plague and other catastrophes in biblical times; his scenario violates a number of physical laws. In the committee's magazine, a twice-yearly publication called the Zetetic (Greek for skeptic), committee members have also knocked UFOlogy, biorhythms and astrology...