Word: newscaster
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Velva and where he went to the University of Minnesota; to Europe, where Edward R. Murrow hired him in 1939 for CBS's illustrious wartime team; to Washington, where he was the network's national correspondent and began his commentary on Walter Cronkite's nightly newscast...
While CBS was preparing its interviews, NBC was also trying valiantly to collar Sadat. But the network's man in Cairo, John Palmer, was out of the country and could not get a plane back in time for the Monday newscast. "We were sunk by a goddam jet," grumbled a producer at NBC. (The network got to Sadat only in time for the following night's broadcast.) NBC did manage a satellite conversation on Monday between Begin and Anchorman John Chancellor, taped only minutes after the Israeli had finished with Cronkite. NBC had to borrow the same hotel...
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...evening-newscast ratings were moribund and staff morale was low, when an ambitious young executive from the network's entertainment side took over the news division. Suddenly, conventional journalistic techniques were replaced with show-business razzmatazz. Good men were pushed aside. The ratings soared. Money poured...
...lavish news operations for prestige more than profit, but ABC News' poor ratings have been something of an embarrassment for the network, which this winter took a commanding lead over CBS and NBC in prime-time entertainment ratings. For the month ending May 1, ABC's nightly newscast had an average audience share of only 17%, a point lower than the average share for the month before Walters arrived last fall. By contrast, CBS'S evening-news share rose from 29 to 30 and NBC's from...