Word: nbc
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Every working day, Barbara Walters would rise before dawn, stagger into a waiting limousine and make it to the NBC studios in time to have her hair done for the Today show. One day last week she slept until 7, had breakfast with her daughter Jacqueline, 8, washed her hair in the kitchen sink of her midtown Manhattan apartment and took a taxi to work. That day there was something else new in her routine. Four months and uncounted fan-magazine headlines after she left Today, Walters faced the television public for the first time in her new $1 million...
...Deity's Nielsen habits are unknown, but in cities where overnight ratings were available, nearly twice as many mortals as usual were watching ABC, and as many as watched CBS and NBC combined. Walters' debut was as crisp as a new $100 bill. That, incidentally, is about what she makes for every minute on the newscast, and she earned it. Walters fluffed nary a line, and even had two modest opening-night scoops. Newly deposed Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz suggested by telephone shortly before air time that Jimmy Carter should follow his example and resign for using lewd...
...technical difficulties beyond NBC's control, however, Pauley was not on hand Monday to serve Americans their morning cup of bad news. Neither NBC nor Pauley will say what went bump in the dawn. For weeks she had clearly been the favorite for the job (TIME, Sept. 13), and NBC had already agreed that she would not have to do commercials, which Walters...
Pauley, the talk went, just might have been holding out for more money after she heard what NBC last week offered Kelly Lange, the barmy blonde weather girl at the network's Los Angeles station and an also-ran for the Today job. What actually happened, however, was that NBC officials went into a lather when they learned that Lange was being lured by the ABC body-snatchers who had stolen Walters from them. The network's brass hurriedly rushed into prolonged negotiations and promised to double Lange's salary, to $200,000, and give...
Aunt Martha. At week's end NBC finally came up with a six-figure package that may not make her as rich as Walters, but certainly would give her a good shove toward that goal. Pauley accepted, and the network announced that she would take up her duties Oct. 11. Tom Brokaw was elated: "She's bright and enterprising and engaging, and she just happens to be pretty." Barbara Walters was gracious: "It's unfair to be called the next Barbara Walters. I hope she'll be herself." Jane Pauley was. Said...