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...many, the answer was clearly no. The ever cautious and gentlemanly Cyrus Vance, Jimmy Carter's Secretary of State, appeared on NBC's Meet the Press to brand the timing of Haig's announcement in Peking that the U.S. had agreed "in principle" to sell lethal weapons to China as "needlessly provocative" to the Soviet Union. "It smacks of bearbaiting rather than dealing seriously with the problems," Vance said. Later in the week, he charged that the arms proposals for China "virtually removed any influence we have left over the Soviet Union. We played the China card...
...broader group than the conservative Christian organizations from which they were rather casually drawn. TIME correspondents last week found no upsurge in protest calls and letters to networks, local stations, sponsors or retail stores. CBS had received only about 50 letters on the proposed boycott; half opposed the idea. NBC Vice Chairman Richard Salant said he had recently received 'thousands" of Christian brochures, some with accompanying letters, a pattern familiar to networks and rarely taken seriously: almost all were protesting Love, Sidney, a new situation comedy that is being considered for NBC's fall schedule with a homosexual...
...smaller survey last fall included on its "least constructive" list ABC shows Taxi and Vega$ and CBS hits WKRP in Cincinnati and The Dukes of Hazzard. NBC, lowest in commercial competition, had five of the "top ten constructive" shows, including Quincy and Little House on the Prairie...
From 9 a.m. until NBC's Nightly News goes on the air, John Chancellor keeps his own close watch on the A.P., U.P.I, and Reuters wires, and believes that network news owes much of its credibility to the fact that they (the A.P. in particular) are "so quick in catching their own errors." It wouldn't be fair to call network news parasitic (it pays for the wire services, and spots its own people at a few conspicuous places to film stories and to personalize the news), but the dependency is deep. If so much of the daily...
...opening day of the walkout, NBC ran highlights of Game Six of the 1975 World Series instead of the usual major league baseball game of the week. ABC ran the film Elvis! instead of its Monday Night Baseball. ESPN, a national 24-hour sports cable network, began live broadcasts of Triple-A minor league games. Some minor league teams reported increased attendance, but for most it was still too early in the strike to attract many fans from the majors. Newspapers filled their sports pages with accounts of memorable games from the past. The Chicago Tribune took fans back...