Word: network
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...When I really believe in something," says hard-driving NBC Documentary Producer Lucy Jarvis, "nothing stops me." Her television credits justify the bravado. In 1962, she cajoled Nikita Khrushchev into letting her film a special inside the Kremlin-a privilege never before permitted even the Soviet network. The following year, she collared France's Cultural Affairs Minister André Malraux and demanded: "If Khrushchev trusted me, why can't you?"-and gained TV's first penetration of the Louvre. If guile or gall does not work, there is always main strength. Once when a Tokyo airport functionary...
...case, "to protect the network," Lucy Jarvis negotiated an agreement with Barnard's next patient, Philip Blaiberg, and his family. NBC would pay the Blaibergs $9,000 for exclusive interviews before the surgery, $25,000 for exclusive movie and still pictures of the operation itself, and $16,000 for exclusive post-operation coverage. Was this the start of an internetwork auction? Decidedly no, says CBS's Salant. "We did not bid for anything, and we didn't offer anyone anything. We don't believe in payments for rights to a hard-news story. Dr. Barnard doesn...
Sneaked Stills. As luck-and medicine-would have it, neither network got in. The Blaiberg operation came up too fast, and Barnard barred all film crews from the operation. A Cape Town fashion photographer, posing as a medical student, did sneak into the operating-room observation gallery and grabbed some stills; NBC attorneys got a temporary injunction prohibiting him from "selling or disposing" of them. A doctor who had brought his subminiature camera into the operation also took a few pictures but handed them over to Barnard after a reprimand...
Nevertheless, say the programmers, the selective viewer should be encouraged by the unprecedented number of specials offered this season. After all, they explain, the audience cannot be selective unless it has something better or at least different to select from. On three successive nights recently, each network pre-empted all regularly scheduled series for specials...
...most progressive Eastern European network, predictably enough, is the Yugoslav. The news is played fairly straight (though the Israelis were labeled "aggressors" in their war with the Arabs). Uniquely in Eastern Europe, Jugoslovenska Radio-Televizija dares a weekly hour of social and political satire. And on a Thursday-night interview show, Host Jovan Sčekic questions government officials with an inquisitorial style reminiscent of the old Mike Wallace; home viewers are invited to phone in sticky questions of their own. Yugoslav audiences, in fact, get plenty of say about programming. At one point after a thunder of complaints...