Word: newscast
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Leaders of Civic Forum appeared on the main evening TV newscast with a list of names they had given Adamec as possible Cabinet members only hours before he resigned...
Other analysts are less pessimistic. After all, the quality of network newscasts is still higher than the crime-and-accident-heavy fare on most local stations. Instead of trying to make the day's headlines interesting to viewers who may already have seen them twice, some critics suggest that the networks offer more in-depth analysis. Says Herford: "Maybe Nightline is the model for the future evening newscast. Maybe the networks should tackle the one or two most important issues every day during that half hour...
From the moment in 1963 when CBS became the first network to expand its 15- minute nightly newscast to half an hour, visionaries there and at rivals NBC and ABC began to talk of the logical next step: a full hour of news. A quarter-century later, they are still just talking. But upstart Cable News Network, the 24-hour information service that began in 1980 and reaches 52 million households, has taken that step. Last week CNN launched The World Today, a 60-minute newscast (airtime: 6 to 7 p.m. EST) that in much of the U.S. competes head...
...WORLD TODAY (CNN, debuting Oct. 16, 6 p.m. EDT). Ted Turner's 24-hour news channel made its reputation by being around when the networks weren't. But now it tackles Rather, Jennings and Brokaw on their own turf, with a new hourlong evening newscast...
...watershed in American education. The company promises to provide 1,000 hours of free satellite time and $500,000 annually to make instructional programs accessible to participating schools. The Whittle network could even accommodate Channel One's recently announced cable competitors: CNN's Newsroom, a 15-minute daily newscast, and Discovery Channel's Assignment: Discovery, an hour of instructional programming...