Word: nbc
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This is television's year of the family. CBS has the Fitzpatricks, NBC has Mulligan's Stew, and ABC has Eight Is Enough. By some grand irony, however, PBS, the poor stepsister network, has the two most ambitious family sagas: I, Claudius, yet another impressive import from the BBC, and The Best of Families, a lavish $6 million drama of New York City in the last two decades of the 19th century. Running simultaneously, the two series offer a lesson in contrasts, showing just how good...
...petroleum fuel is used in farming, Agriculture Secretary Bob Bergland is having no problem working plugs into upcoming speeches to rural audiences. One of his suggestions: the use of solar power to heat hen houses. Vice President Walter Mondale joined the parade with a pitch on NBC's Today show...
...season. Last week, just five weeks into the fall season, CBS gave its own unhappy assessment: TV's new year has brought it disaster. CBS-until last year the undisputed leader for two decades-was in third place in the ratings, miles behind ABC and irritating inches behind NBC...
Victory is not likely to come soon for CBS or NBC. In the aerial dogfight above Sixth Avenue ABC will certainly have the edge for the rest of the 1977-78 season-and perhaps for the rest of the decade as well. "The ABC powerhouse has clearly established itself as the General Motors of the business," says Mike Dann a TV consultant who for seven years was CBS'S chief programmer. "It might develop that we'll have one General Motors and two American Motors...
...Wednesday-afternoon White House strategy session that included top Carter aides and Vice President Walter Mondale. The participants were painfully aware that Carter needed a quick pick-me-up. His Administration seemed to have lost direction. Some people were talking about a one-term presidency. Two weeks ago, an NBC poll had given the President a discouraging 46% approval rating (down from 60% in February). Now Harris was out with figures that showed even more slippage: a 66% negative rating on his handling of the economy, 57% negative for the energy program, 51% negative for his foreign policy. Something dramatic...