Word: network
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...McCann-Erickson advertising agency as boss of its international division. Last week, bouncing back to television, 52-year-old Pat Weaver was named president of M-E Productions, the radio and TV subsidiary of McCann's parent, Interpublic, Inc. His new job puts Weaver, long an advocate of network control of TV programs, firmly on the other side of the fence...
Television's machine-tailored personalities are generally easy to replace, but when Dave Garroway resigned from Today last May, NBC faced one of those crises that keep TV executives afloat in martinis. Where could the network find another fellow with all the father owl appearance of Garroway and his special air of wisdom? The network did not try, instead delivered an intelligent surprise last week by replacing Garroway not with a "personality" but with a topnotch newsman. NBC's choice is John Chancellor, who has spent his career in the NBC news department, has recently been the network...
Although NBC pointed out that the Today show will continue to have its traditional varied balance of breakfast matter, the choice reflects the network's growing emphasis on news and public affairs. After an apprenticeship on the Chicago...
...HIGHWAYS. Expenditures of $1 billion over the next five years to raise the total network from 19,000 to 27,000 miles, and paved mileage from...
Absent Edges. Omnibus Producer Robert Saudek presented a reasoned argument centered in the idea that the "networks must not go on, in the name of freedom, polluting air they do not own." His proposal: set up several nonprofit organizations, staffed by experts in various fields who would select programs; the networks would simply function as agents selling air time, but would have no control over shows. Writer-Producer Robert Alan (The Sacco-Vanzetti Story) Aurthur, whose rhetoric was particularly eloquent when he was describing the "cold, slitted eyes of advertising men," revealed that low-flying, low-quality ABC, the network...