Word: network
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...course of a year, the network programming departments examine 1,200 story ideas, most of them submitted by packaging producers, not counting a few by little old ladies with simply unforgettable adventures. Of these suggestions, 350 or so actually are turned into scripts. The next stage is supposed to be a pilot production, but since a one-hour pilot film costs upwards of $350,000, only 90 are ventured a year, and less than half of that number ever...
...three networks installed elaborate computer systems programmed to digest early returns and forecast winners at the earliest possible moment. At CBS, the setup was VPA (Vote Profile Analysis). NBC offered EVA (Electronic Vote Analysis); ABC produced RSVP (Research Selected Vote Profile). Like wire-service leg men still dedicated to the old-fashioned proposition that beat ing the opposition by a matter of minutes is a major victory, each network was determined to be first to call the winners. Fragmentary returns from key precincts were fed into the computers; comparisons were made with past voting patterns; projections of the uncounted votes...
HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN (ABC, 7:30-10 p.m.). The first ABC movie special, The Bridge on the River Kwai, unhorsed Bonanza in the Nielsen race, and now the network is gunning for The Man from U.N.C.L.E. with Sam Goldwyn's 1952 story of the fairy-tale-teller, starring Danny Kaye, Farley Granger and Jeanmaire...
...Sallal's troops then swooped down on some 140 suspects, including Mohamed Ruwainy, Sallal's ex-Minister for Tribal Affairs, and Colonel Hadi Issa, former deputy chief of staff of Sallal's armed forces. Sallal's government accused Ruwainy and Issa of organizing a "subversive network seeking to plunge the country into terrorism and panic" and planning a campaign of assassination-financed by Saudi Arabia, Britain, Israel and the U.S. After a 31-hour trial, Ruwainy, Issa and five others were marched into San'a's main square and executed. Eight others who were...
...toward a crisis in transportation. If the demand for transportation in the U.S. continues to match the nation's current economic growth, it will double by 1980 and double again by the year 2000. Yet virtually every expert in the field admits that the nation's transportation network is in a sorry, uncoordinated state...