Word: nbc
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...where most of them stay, the 200-odd foreign journalists in El Salvador daily swap stories of near misses and miraculous escapes. In one episode a photographer rolled under his car just in time to elude bullets blasting from a helicopter gunship overhead. In another, a van carrying an NBC crew had its windows blown out; the passengers got away unhurt save for cuts from flying glass. Such adventures are often recounted with black humor, and justified on the grounds of competitive pressure. Says one U.S. newsman: "If another network gets a story and gets out alive, then...
...living has been good for Letterman. Though his first regular series-a morning comedy-variety show on NBC-ran for only 18 weeks in 1980, it found its loose-limbed form toward the end, won two Emmys (for best host and writing) and became the prototype for Late Night. Upon its demise, NBC signed him, at a reported $750,000 a year, to wait around for a slot to open up. When Tom Snyder was deposed from his eight-year milk run, Letterman was ready to step in. Carson's company co-produces Letterman's show, scanning...
...Late Night is equaling Tom Snyder's ratings," notes NBC Programming Chief Brandon Tartikoff, "and is even more popular with the 18-to-34-year-olds. We're very pleased with it." Barry Sand, who brought order to the morning show's early chaos and now produces Late Night, points to unexpectedly long lines of sponsors and ticket holders. Markoe, a dark-haired, Liza-eyed Berkeley graduate who has lived with Letterman since 1977, is proud of the show's progress but eventually plans to move on: "I have things I'd like to write...
Next month John Chancellor, 54, will switch to a commentator's role, and NBC will launch a new anchor team: Roger Mudd and former Today Host Tom Brokaw, 41, who are already being touted as "the anchor team of the '80s." Muses CBS Evening News Executive Producer Howard Stringer: "We may be in the lead right now, but we cannot afford to be complacent. With Tom Brokaw and Roger Mudd starting soon, it certainly wouldn't take much to close the gap between our news programs." Only time and the Nielsens will tell. But some observers think...
...trite and tragic. Another pop star found in a hotel room, dead of undetermined causes at an obscenely early age. In their blackest moods, the writers for NBC's original Saturday Night Live might have used these facts to make a satiric point about the self-destruction of performers who spoke most electrifyingly to their generation. And at the end of the skit, the victim-played by SNL 's reigning cutup, John Belushi-would have sprung back to life, bounced to his feet and bellowed: "But no-o-o-o!" But yes. Late last week, in a bungalow...