Word: nbc
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...four or five minutes on the air, which is a lifetime on American news. He or she had enough time to make and develop a point. If the speech was boring, that was the candidate's problem, not the BBC's or ITV's. Try selling that to CBS, NBC...
...Justices Harry Blackmun, Sandra Day O'Connor and William Brennan. ABC's entertainment division is preparing a one-hour tribute titled The Splendiferous Wham-Bam Constitution Special that will feature a number of stars, including Michael J. Fox and Barbra Streisand. On a serious note, both the ABC and NBC news divisions will present specials on differing interpretations of the Constitution...
Whatever the true extent of the erosion, it was probably inevitable. MTV's success spawned a host of imitators, such as NBC's Friday Night Videos and WTBS's Night Tracks, which diluted the audience. A more serious problem, in the view of many, has been the declining quality of the videos, which record companies supply to MTV at no charge. "MTV has no control over their main source of programming, and that's the video clips," notes Video Producer Ken Walz. "They're trapped by what they get for free...
FOOTNOTE: *The only known videotape of Rust's approach and landing, shot by an unidentified British tourist, was obtained by NBC News, which bought worldwide distribution rights. The Soviets have made no attempt to obtain the tape, and it was not until last week that Soviet print media began admitting that the plane had made it all the way to Red Square...
Kalb's appointment was announced this May, and he officially crossed the threshhold from journalist to scholar on June 1. But his experiences in Washington as NBC's chief diplomatic correspondent figure prominently in his plans for the Center...