Word: nbc
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Moscone Center last week and surveyed their back-seat accommodations, print reporters at the Democratic Convention realized that they were, more than ever, mere onlookers at a network TV spectacular. From the layout of the hall to the schedule of proceedings, everything was designed to assist or beguile ABC, NBC, CBS and a new but virtually coequal presence, Cable News Network. The long, low, wire-laden convention hall looked like, and became, an enormous TV studio. The delegates, the nominal center of activity, served mainly as a massive studio audience, providing emotional (and often selective and misleading) reaction shots during...
...services and major newspapers, by contrast, were tucked away on platforms placed diagonally behind the podium: even when standing, many of them could not see the speakers, the delegates or much of anything else except the glowing network insignia and the distant figures of CBS's Dan Rather, NBC's Tom Brokaw and ABC's Peter Jennings and David Brinkley. Said Editor Robert Maynard of the Oakland Tribune: "This is just another dramatic example that TV has completely taken over center stage in American politics...
...what time Jesse Jackson would speak, cut away from Tuesday evening's session to broadcast 24 minutes of a rerun of the thriller series Hart to Hart; it returned to the convention without finishing the story (not to worry, the Harts trapped the would-be assassin, as rival NBC mockingly informed viewers two nights later). The truncated schedule left scarcely any time for the pretaped background on personalities and issues, profiles of delegates or enterprising features that had distinguished past coverage. NBC Commentator John Chancellor, covering his 15th convention, admitted in an interview, "In two to three hours...
...proceedings on one network may be competing against entertainment programming on another. Similar arrangements will be in effect for the Republican Convention in Dallas in August. The networks' reasoning is simple: gavel-to-gavel coverage is very expensive, and the number of viewers it attracts, in the words of NBC Anchor Tom Brokaw, "has been diminishing and diminishing...
...term power lunch. Says he: "Power lunches are for those who have enough power not to go back to work." The house softball squad, Les Lapins Sauvages, plans to come out of semiperpetual retirement during the convention to take on an Eastern media team headed by NBC Anchorman Tom Brokaw. Eligibility rules for the Square squad should give Brokaw cause for optimism. Says Dietsch: "You have to be a drinker and over 40, or at least have a doctor's certificate to prove partial liver damage...