Word: nbc
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Manila last week was a meandering one for viewers of the three network news shows. CBS Evening News Anchorman Dan Rather introduced the story from San Antonio and Sioux Falls, S. Dak., where he was doing a series of reports on America's farmers. Tom Brokaw launched the NBC Nightly News coverage on Tuesday from Washington, where the big story was the inquiry into the explosion of the space shuttle. And on ABC, coverage of the drama in the Philippines began in Moscow, where World News Tonight Anchor Peter Jennings was fighting off a bad cold. After opening Monday...
...deskbound newsreader, he is more and more becoming a super-reporter, traveling to major news stories and taking much of the network's news operations with him in a traveling road show of electronic gadgetry. Though none of the three evening news anchors went to the Philippines last week, NBC's Brokaw and ABC's Jennings were in the country three weeks earlier for the presidential elections. All three anchors were in Geneva last November for the summit and in Mexico City in September to report on the earthquake. Jennings anchored 19 newscasts from foreign locations last year, including Paris...
...stations and independent news services. Showcasing the anchor in remote locations is one way for a network to demonstrate its uniqueness. Still, major trips will probably remain special occasions, at least for the near future. "We have to pick our opportunities carefully," says Bill Wheatley, executive producer of the NBC Nightly News. "We can't be a constant road show...
...stars of these shows are not always enthusiastic about retreading old ground. Larry Hagman, now the kingpin of Dallas, refused to re-create his old supporting role for NBC's I Dream of Jeannie: 15 Years Later. Says Star Barbara Eden: "It's dangerous messing around with something that people really liked, to try to repeat it." Dangerous, perhaps, but also potentially lucrative. Perry Mason Returns was the top-rated TV movie for all of 1985; a follow-up is planned for this spring, and up to three more for next season...
...frontline fever as it relates the conceptual brawls, bad trips on the twin drugs of cocaine and sudden fame, psychological entanglements, romantic skirmishes and perpetual pitched battles with the censors involved in getting the show launched. Michaels, his cast and his writers saw themselves as comedic fifth columnists at NBC. The network executives, of course, mostly thought the players were crazy--until they caught on big. Hill and Weingrad are deft at dealing with all the infighting, as well as describing what the creative action was like inside MiG alley. They also benefit from a cast of characters that comes...