Word: nbc
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...glass windows of his CBS Evening News office and retype his dog-eared files onto pages of a loose-leaf notebook. "I don't learn just by reading, so I rewrite everything and get it into my head," he reports. Similarly in the three weeks before E-day, NBC's John Chancellor covered four 12-in. by 17-in. cards with handwritten summaries of electoral and demographic facts. Chancellor's scribblings were all color-coded and organized into 51 tiny squares, one for each state and the District of Columbia. "It takes a long time," he says...
...Much of that extra money went into elaborate new sets and gadgetry. CBS headquarters was sheathed in enough slanted Plexiglas to suggest a futuristic Dairy Queen. ABC's election-center reporters sat at semicircular desks that resembled, and were described by their occupants as, bumper cars. NBC's 336-sq.-ft. map of the country looked like a visual aid for Hollywood Squares: each state took on a hue (red for Carter, blue for Ford) as its winner was projected. All three networks abandoned the traditional mechanical tote boards for computerized video display screens. They were not that...
...outcome. But they would have needed magnifying glasses to find much in the way of deeper insight or analysis. Walter Cronkite enlightened viewers with the fact that while only .0000002% of the population are astronauts, fully 2% of the U.S. Senate are now drawn from that calling. NBC's Jack Perkins interviewed Ezra Coram, age 100, of Riverside, Calif., who said that he has chosen mostly winners during his 76-year balloting career and this year voted for Ford. CBS's incisive Bill Moyers even lapsed once. Midway through a discussion of the 1876 election with Eric Sevareid...
...that the evening was dull. After irate viewers had called NBC to complain, Chancellor apologized for noting, accurately as it happens, that Democrats are generally poorer and less well educated than Republicans: "If you're listening, Averell Harriman and Daniel Patrick Moynihan of Harvard, I hope you'll forgive me." CBS'S Dan Rather tried to brighten the proceedings with some well-honed metaphors. Assessing Gerald Ford's uncertain prospects in the Midwest, Rather declared: "You can pour water on the fire and call in the dogs, because the hunt will be over...
...star of the show was the electorate, a group so narrowly divided in its choice for President that network oracles had little time for cosmic generalizing. Recapping the fast-shifting vote totals left little air time for analysis. "Who was winning became the analysis," said NBC'S Wald. Voters may have yearned for more than a play-by-play, but on Election Night television when the contest is close, it matters less how a candidate won or lost than when...