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Word: newscaster (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...stroll. No one in Swidnik, a factory town 100 miles southeast of Warsaw, claims to know just who made that first "news-walk," but within days almost the entire population of 30,000 began to crowd the tree-lined main street for an evening promenade during the 7:30 newscast. When local authorities clamped on a 7 o'clock curfew to counter the protest, the resourceful residents of Swidnik took a walk during the 5 o'clock news broadcast. Frustrated officials finally lifted the curfew, and after a month of newswalks, Swidnik's citizens decided they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Poland: The Newswalkers of Swidnik | 6/7/1982 | See Source »

...threats, he added: "This voting . .. probably isn't going to be a significant chapter in El Salvadoran "history. A paragraph, perhaps, but nothing much more than that, because the real context of the country is terror." ABC balanced Wooten's words at the next opportunity, the evening newscast, when Richard Threlkeld delivered an upbeat assessment of the vote...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Missing a Story in El Salvador | 4/12/1982 | See Source »

...first day of the rest of your careers." He quickly purged the Evening News production staff of Cronkite's crew, added electronic music, a new set and ABC-style computerized control-room gadgets. CBS even adopted ABC'S penchant for hyping upcoming stories throughout the newscast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: The Battle in Network News | 3/15/1982 | See Source »

...player or team that intensifies their watching interest, and, by the end of the game, their hopes have been satisfied or their worries confirmed. Sauter thinks viewers also invest emotionally in people they see in the news. Trouble is, there is no final score anxieties, the end of a newscast, and the evening news resolves few anxieties...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Newswatch: A Sporting Look to the News | 2/8/1982 | See Source »

...record is already being written in black. At 6 o'clock every evening, while Dan Rather, Frank Reynolds and John Chancellor are preparing their evening newscasts in Washington and New York studios, INN'S Bill Jorgensen is banging out his own newscast on a worn black typewriter in the crowded WPIX newsroom in midtown Manhattan. A few hours after some 40 million viewers have seen the three networks' news programs, an estimated 3 million more in 51 cities watch the show anchored by Jorgensen, Pat Harper and Steve Bosh. The result is a revolution in local news...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Two Upstarts vs. the Big Three | 6/1/1981 | See Source »

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