Word: nbc
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...welfare, or about their families: it was Daniel Schorr wanting to know the hostages' attitude toward the press. Did Schorr expect a testimonial from them, or would he have been just as happy (since TV interviewers like to elicit on-screen emotion) had someone flared at him? Afterward, NBC's Linda Ellerbee, mad as a wet hen, complained on the air about "the controlled scene," the "sort of official line" she had heard, and the welcome home-type questions-instead of the presumably sharp ones she would have asked. Over on CBS, Morton Dean was curious...
Ever since the Ewings of Dallas helped vault CBS back to the top of the ratings, the networks have raced into prime-time domestic cliffhangers. There are now four such series on weeknights: Dynasty, Mondays, ABC; Flamingo Road, Tuesdays, NBC; Knots Landing, Thursdays, CBS; and Dallas, Fridays, CBS. As if four hours of hot passions and cold revenge, old money and dirty money, macho patriarchs and mysterious paternities, good people worrying about, doing right and bad people having fun doing wrong were not enough, ABC has reserved three nights (Sunday, Monday and Wednesday) next week for an adaptation of John...
...them are paying off. Knots Landing, which spun the Ewings' gray-sheep brother Gary off into the moral thickets of California suburbia, has frequently won its time slot since it debuted in December 1979. A newer entry. Flamingo Road, is putting lurid new life into NBC's chronically tired blood. Lorimar's Secrets of Midland Heights, an updated Peyton Place with the handsomest cast on TV, seemed to be finding its narrative stride before CBS canceled it last month for low ratings...
...successor for Griffiths. His messy firing in June 1980 of his own heir apparent, Maurice Valente, who had been brought into the company only six months earlier from a top job at ITT, had angered several outside directors. Their dismay merely intensified when Jane Cahill Pfeiffer, chairman of NBC, RCA's network subsidiary, was let go in even clumsier fashion a few weeks later...
Bradshaw is not yet saying anything about his plans for RCA, but one subject is almost certain to have his attention immediately: what to do about NBC President Fred Silverman, the programming hot-shot who pushed ABC to the top of television ratings in the mid-1970s and was hired in 1978 to do the same for NBC. Silverman has brought about a personnel upheaval at the network, and, although NBC has recently picked up in the ratings game, it still trails far behind leading CBS. Rumors have been swirling for months that Silverman would soon be fired, or perhaps...