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MACY'S THANKSGIVING DAY PARADE (NBC, Nov. 23, 9 a.m. EST). Might as well face it -- she's here to stay. Today show usurper Deborah Norville joins terminally jovial weatherman Willard Scott to narrate this year's float extravaganza...
Much the same humiliation befell NBC's network news operation after last month's California earthquake. KRON, the NBC affiliate in San Francisco, tried to transmit its footage of the disaster to NBC via satellite. But for more than an hour after the tremor, a glitch-prone NBC network was unable to broadcast any live reports. Meanwhile, CNN, which had access to the same satellite signal, was airing KRON's vivid images of the destruction...
...Both NBC and CBS television reported last night that all the Americans, including military personnel, were freed unharmed. The reports were attributed to the U.S. Embassy but the reports were refuted late yesterday by the Red Cross and sources from the scene...
...ratings have slacked off a bit this fall. (The kids who constitute his main audience, explain show executives, have gone back to school.) Through it all, Tonight's ratings have remained relatively stable. "This race is not a sprint, it's a marathon," notes Brandon Tartikoff, president of NBC Entertainment. "Whatever burns the brightest, fades the fastest...
...POLLY (NBC, Nov. 12, 7 p.m. EST). Will a batch of new songs and The Cosby Show's Keshia Knight Pulliam be able to improve on the old Disney film about an orphan with a cheery outlook? Don't be a Pollyanna...