Word: nbc
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Pope nine months later, when Solidarity was already well established? Finally, if the Soviets were so concerned about papal intervention, why didn't that prevent them from ordering a Polish-executed crackdown last December? In attempting to answer the big question behind the attack on John Paul, NBC has raised dozens more...
Charlotte cancels NBC's news
Viewers in Charlotte, N.C., who turn the dial this week looking for Tom Brokaw and Roger Mudd at 6:30 p.m. may not believe their eyes: in place of the NBC network's Nightly News, affiliate station WPCQ-TV will start airing Family Feud. And instead of the local evening-news lead-in, the station will offer Real People. Insists Lawrence Fraiberg, president of WPCQ's parent, Westinghouse Group W TV, the nation's biggest non-network station group: "This has nothing to do with our attitude toward news...
...households. By comparison, CBS-affiliated WBTV and ABC-linked WSOC-TV each draw ten times as many news viewers, albeit on VHP channels that are easier to tune in than WPCQ's UHF signal, Channel 36. WPCQ's troubles are compounded by three nearby NBC affiliates whose signals reach into the Charlotte market. Still, the station will offer NBC's Today, a local newscast at noon and hourly bulletins at night...
...York City, NBC dismissed WPCQ's action as "an oddity of that particular market." It should hope so: thus far, there has been scarcely a ripple of protest in Charlotte about WPCQ's no-news-is-good-news policy...