Word: network
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Circus Side. NBC this year took a hard-news approach. The only real news, the network obviously decided, was the shifting of votes between Front Runner Nixon and his opposition. But since there was very little "erosion," as possible vote shifts were invariably called, NBC viewers had to watch two days of model reporting in pursuit of a nonstory. CBS, on the other hand, tended to cover voting trends offscreen. Canvassing every single delegate, some since February, the network organized a running "CBS News Delegate Count." Since all that produced on the air was the latest totals,* CBS could devote...
...acquisition of MCA goes through, Westinghouse will be getting a studio that accounts for 151 hours a week of network TV's prime-time output (The Virginian, It Takes a Thief and Ironside) and has turned out some of Hollywood's most profitable full-length features (Thoroughly Modern Millie, The Secret War of Harry Frigg). The biggest plums are the potential TV receipts from MCA's library of 1,954 feature films, including 700 Paramount features that Wasserman shrewdly bought up ten years ago, and the company's real estate properties, notably its $1 billion Universal...
Television, of course, suffers from the self-justification syndrome worse than any other group. While reporters have to fill a few pages a day with Convention material (which varies remarkably little from one newspaper to another), the network people--especially CBS and NBC--have committed themselves to feeding the monster as much as eight or nine hours a day with this stuff. This is a little like trying to write a full-length biography of a still-born baby. The networks end up interviewing delegates and candidates over and over again, asking them the same insipid questions, occasionally shifting...
Luring Them Back. The automatic borrowing privilege is a bone offered to smaller banks, which have been easing out of the reserve network. Since 1949, the Federal Reserve System's membership has dwindled from 6,923 to 6,044. Some banks may be lured back by easier borrowing rights. Another move to cast a wider federal net would be the creation of special "seasonal borrowing privileges" for small banks in agricultural and resort areas...
...nearly 100% subscribed. Whether this showing reflected confidence in the company or the hope that Hughes would take over may never be known. "In addition to this infusion of cash," says ABC Vice President James C. Hagerty, "we will have a saving of $53 million on network operations this year. This is the first time we've been out from under in two years...