Word: network
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...networks recognize, the stakes are impalpable but high. Thus when Chet Huntley and David Brinkley scored for NBC in 1960, NBC magically swept past CBS to become the top network in most other respects as well. This year. Huntley and Brinkley were again perched on their high platform, but they appeared to have been incarcerated up there for 24 months. Brinkley's celebrated eye for the wry seemed a little bloodshot. "Now let's check the RCA 501 computer, which has just had its 9:30 feeding," he wried. It was a sort of amusing remark-but somehow...
Open Intercom. That fairly well symbolized the trouble with NBC this year. The network's "Dewline" tabulation-a system that stationed NBC stringers in hundreds of voting districts-was swift and often ahead of the competition. At 7:35 p.m., for instance, NBC had 25% of the Connecticut senatorial vote, while CBS had only 15% and ABC 8%. But the commentary of NBC's public-affairs stars, from Huntley and Brinkley to Merrill Mueller, Frank McGee, Sander Vanocur, John Chancellor et al., lacked yeast. Brinkley may have had something when he said that the computer was likely...
...Dewline, and there was an easygoing rapport in the air as Cronkite nonchalantly tossed the ball to Eric Sevareid, Harry Reasoner, David Schoenbrun or Charles Collingwood. ABC hugely improved its coverage and managed to run a poor third, giving too much time to dull human analysis while the network's computer was failing to get a word in edgewise...
...rally behind a strong leader. Said De Gaulle pointedly: "In our world, which is so dangerous-one sees it now at this very moment-France cannot survive if she falls back into the impotence of yesterday." Many voters are likely to agree. Further, the government-controlled radio-TV network, which plugged the Gaullist line even in news broadcasts, limited each opposition speaker to ten minutes, and a sternly ticking time clock was shown before the speaker began and when he had ended. The performances were enough to drive a televiewer into the kitchen for another shot of cognac...
...twelve-year career simply by wading in, accepting three punches for the chance to land one roundhouse of his own. "I don't have any particular ability," he admitted. "I rely on condition." But the punishment he took showed in his ravaged face-the cauliflowered ears, the network of tiny scars across his forehead and cheeks, the huge mounds of scar tissue that bulged above his eyes...