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...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...
Turner will counter the networks with what he considers an electronic newsmagazine. Some weekday highlights: a two-hour news and feature program at noon (E.D.T.); a half-hour of financial and business news at 7 p.m.; a prime-time newscast from 8 to 10; a call-in talk show at 10 with Sandi Freeman, a former Chicago TV personality; a half-hour of sports at 11; and at 1 a.m. a celebrity interview show from Los Angeles with Lee Leonard, ex-host of NBC's Grandstand show. Scheduled throughout the day are reports on such topics as health...
America's allies were as surprised as everyone else by the news of the mission. As a precaution against leaks, Washington had neither consulted nor advised them in advance. British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher first heard of the action when she switched on the 7 a.m. BBC newscast-and that was nearly two hours before she received a personal message from Carter notifying her of the operation. Heads of other allied states had similar experiences...
...Lake Placid Winter Olympics.) Journalists feared that he would bring game-show hype to the evening news, as described so chillingly in Paddy Chayefsky's 1976 movie Network. Arledge did little to allay those suspicions when, shortly after taking over, he devoted 19 minutes of one 22½-minute nightly newscast to a lurid account of the capture of an accused killer, the so-called...
...hourlong newscast was seriously considered by all three networks in 1976; it faded when NBC abandoned the idea because of the unwillingness among its affiliate stations to yield half an hour of local time. Yet the stepped-up competition among the networks suggests that a reconsideration cannot...