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...President has taken to using television the way other men use the telephone. In the past two weeks he has appeared six times-usually on the spur of the moment, to such an extent that harried network executives pleaded for warnings further in advance. A typical performance came at 9:58 p.m. on Sunday, May 2. Johnson gave the networks less than three hours' notice. No one knew what his subject was going to be. Only CBS carried the appearance live. Yet it proved to be one of Johnson's meatiest statements about the Dominican Republic...
...Washington, U.S.-network bigwigs were expecting to meet at the White House to complain about the President's increasing pre-emption of prime TV time on short notice. Instead of a meeting, Johnson produced a new short-notice request. As soon as possible, he said, he wanted to use Early Bird to broadcast a V-E anniversary speech direct to Europe. Three and one-half hours later, in a slow and measured drawl, he was chiding Charles de Gaulle live on British and Italian TV screens, and being taped for later rebroadcast in almost every other European nation...
...Data transmission will bring the skills of giant computers to anyone who needs them. The computers themselves will join forces in a vast network, and automation of industry will become an international reality...
...Every network effort cited by the Peabody panel was in the public service category, a type of programming that accounts for only 4% of the networks' time. But more precisely appraised, its share is even less. As the season ends, undersponsored Profiles in Courage is still being bypassed by 20% of NBC's affiliates, unsponsored CBS Reports by 45% of the CBS outlets...
Last November the three networks criss-crunched into a near dead heat in the Nielsen ratings. CBS and NBC scored an identical 19.4% (of TV homes with their sets tuned in during an average minute), and ABC was only a whisker off the pace with a 19.3%. Everyone went crazy. CBS-TV was slipping, and the slip eventually led to the fall of its king, James Aubrey. On the other hand, it also meant that perennially third ABC was on the rise, and so over there, there was much patting of backs. No one thought much about NBC. Except, apparently...