Word: nbc
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...NBC plans an audacious variation of news practice in its expensive new contract with Henry Kissinger. Not only does it plan to use him, as CBS and ABC proposed to do in their spirited bidding for his services, as an interview subject discussing his memoirs when they are published. It wants to put him on an annual foreign-news documentary, and to use him on big breaking stories, being cross-questioned by John Chancellor and David Brinkley on the nightly news. In a way, this is to put the fox among the hens. It is to mix together presumably disinterested...
...areas and hotel suites. Last month she hit Washington as if it were any other one-night stand, sang at Jimmy Carter's Inaugural concert ("I was so nervous. My God, I was awful!") and then, on a whim, freighted on to Manhattan to watch a performance of NBC's Saturday Night show and to hang out with actors and rock friends. New York's Plaza, that swan-bosomed dowager among luxury hotels, has become a favorite roosting place for wealthy rockers (Ringo was there too). To Linda, the Plaza was just one more stop...
...NBC has glumly maintained radio silence since the news broke last week: the network agreed to shell out $2 million to settle a sex-discrimination suit brought by women employees...
...indirect acknowledgment that NBC has practiced sex discrimination, some $1.6 million in raises and back pay will go to former and present employees The rest of the money will go for legal fees and a staff to monitor compliance with the settlement. NBC also agreed to move women into 15% ol its high-level jobs...
...NBC's settlement is just the latest in a string of whopping payoffs in sex-and minority-discrimination suits. AT& T agreed to payments totaling $75 million, mostly to women. Similar proceedings have cost Merrill Lynch $ 1.9 million and Bank of America more than $3 million. Northwest Airlines is fighting a court decision ordering it to pay compensation to some 3000 stewardesses. The cost could run to $40 million. Current targets of such suits include Reader's Digest, Newsday, Saks Fifth Avenue and nine high-priced Manhattan restaurants that refuse to hire women as waitresses. One restaurant that...