Word: network
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...industries (oil refineries, cement factories, textile mills, steel mills) are clustered around the city. Only half of the Philippines' 38,000 miles of roads are in drivable condition, and the Bureau of Public Works estimates that 5,400 miles more are needed to give the nation a minimal service network. Telephones are rare?and even more rarely do they work. Travel is sheer adventure, and the only vehicle that can negotiate the muddy tracks of the bundoks (the Tagalog origin of the American boondocks) is the groaning carabao...
...that any one network fared disastrously in head-to-head competition with the others. Nielsen's first seasonal sampling of 1,100 homes last week gave NBC a minuscule overall lead with 18.4, compared with CBS's 18.1 and ABC's 17.9. More significant was the fact that out of 34 new prime-time shows, brought in this season at a cost of about $50 million, only one - ABC's RatPa trol, a series about desert fighting in World War II - made the top ten. The list...
Eight Secret Service men trailed Jacqueline Kennedy throughout the day. They smuggled her into Littauer Center for the afternoon meeting -- via the front door--while network television crews and news reporters waited patiently at the Center's rear door...
Drowned in Din. Despite Cronkite's unqualified success as a newsman, the network persuaded him to try to be an entertainer as well. Reluctantly, he agreed to host a CBS morning program to compete with Dave Garroway's Today Show, and he found himself a hostage to show business. A gag writer was hired to write his lines, and he lost control of the program. "I was reasonably charming," he insists to this day, "but the whole thing didn't work...
After that debacle, along came Huntley-Brinkley with their breezier approach to the political conventions of 1956. "I was the old hand," says Cronkite, "but they received the critical attention." To make matters worse, by the 1964 conventions, the network competition was out of hand. Lugging their equipment with them, TV reporters swarmed over the convention floor. Quiet and restrained, Walter Cronkite tended to get lost in the crush. CBS executives became so panicked by the Huntley-Brinkley ratings that they rigged Cronkite with a new headset-one earphone tuned to the podium, the other to the control room. Their...