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Since there is nothing like a dame, only a cockeyed optimist could confuse Bob Hope with the real thing. The comedian shed his golf togs and donned a tropically fruity outfit for this week's NBC-TV special celebrating his 78th birthday and the 40th anniversary of the U.S.O. During the taping at West Point before 25,000 cadets, officers and onlookers, Hope sprang eternal. He sparred with Sugar Ray Leonard and teamed up with Mary Martin, 67, to reprise a number from South Pacific. "If I entered the Miss U.S.A. contest,"said Hope, "I'd probably...
Even the visionaries on Manhattan's Broadcasting Row slept soundly that autumn night in 1957 when the space age was born with the launching of Sputnik I. In those days CBS and NBC owned the U.S. television audience, with tiny ABC, known then as "the Almost Broadcasting Company," struggling to catch up. In the years that followed ABC closed the gap, but it is not simply a three-way rivalry any more. Proliferating communications satellites-the progeny of Sputnik-now offer an alternative method of linking up new networks, cheaper and more flexible than the long-distance telephone lines...
...soon faced operating costs close to $3 million per month during the heat of an election summer. News Director George Watson, the former head of ABC's Washington bureau, quit in frustration after two months of broadcasting; others followed. Most threatening of all, RCA (parent company of NBC) tried to prevent CNN from using its Satcom I satellite. But Turner beat RCA in court, and after absorbing losses of more than $20 million in the first year, his network now encompasses cable systems reaching 6.3 million homes, and is growing fast. Says he: "In one week we added...
...Reagan Administration and the three networks for denying his news teams full participation in pool coverage. ABC learned to its horror last month that it may not be able to transmit live news coverage from London of Prince Charles' July wedding. Reason: CNN, along with CBS and NBC, booked the available satellite time before ABC got there...
...NBC each spend upwards of $100 million a year for news operations...