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Judging from his performance as guest host of TV's irreverent, ploddingly skittish variety show, NBC's Saturday Night, Presidential Press Secretary Ron Nessen does not have much future as a comedian. The question some people were asking last week is what sort of future does he have as a presidential press secretary? With good-natured daring, Nessen-a former NBC newsman-appeared in several satiric turns with Gagster Chevy Chase, whose weekly specialty is a lampoon of Ron's accident-prone boss. Nessen played straight man as Chase impersonated President Ford stapling...
...brought back from Jackie Kennedy's 1962 trip to India, the hand-carved backscratcher from Gerald Ford's visit to China last December, and all the other gewgaws gathered in her hectic travels-there sit two alarm clocks. For years Walters, the co-host queen bee of NBC's early morning Today show and the most influential woman on television, has been indentured to those tyrannical timepieces. They are set permanently to go off at 5 a.m. Says she: "I always told people that if I ever had a million dollars my dream was to stay...
What went wrong at NBC...
...NBC Consultant Richard Scammon put the blame on "a heavier switch than we'd anticipated in rural areas." ABC'S Walter Pfister shrugged it off as "a fluke, an anomaly." All three networks base their projections on a model-precinct system. When the results of those precincts are analyzed, they are supposed to give an accurate projection for a state. But ABC and NBC, in their haste to post a winner, took a gamble when the race was too close to call. At the time ABC projected Udall, the News Election Service (see following story), which supplies...
...NBC was no better off, but for a different reason. It has had computer trouble since the New Hampshire race, and was using a manual analysis of results. Man did no better than machine, though NBC is convinced it would have seen the closeness of the race had its computer been operational. CBS was saved by nothing more complicated than proper caution and a set of sample precincts that more accurately weighed the rural vote...