Word: newscasters
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...material shamelessly, not just from Saturday Night Live (caught in the midst of a phone call at the start of his nightly News Update) but even from The Groove Tube, the '60s comedy revue that gave him his first break (the camera lingering mercilessly on the anchorman when the newscast is over...
...sheer promotional chutzpah, Los Angeles' KABC-TV wins the Emmy: following Oprah Winfrey's high-rated interview with Michael Jackson in February, the station turned its entire 11 p.m. newscast (save for a few minutes of sports and weather) into a special report on Jackson. The end of local TV news as we know it? Depends on how you look at it; ratings for the show soared to nearly four times the newscast's usual figures...
Most local news directors concede that KABC's all-Jackson newscast crossed over the line. But generally they defend tie-ins as legitimate feature stories that help boost viewership, much as a newspaper's entertainment section or comics page does. "It's a question of balance," says Bruno Cohen, news director of New York's WNBC-TV. "Is there a place in a program for a good, interesting tie-in to what the prime-time programming was? Yes, if it's not overused, and the rest of the newscast does...
Have you ever wondered how great mistakes in foreign policy are made? If you have, the United Nations, Europe and the United States are currently putting on a textbook-ready demonstration in the Balkans. The show is available on any newscast free of charge--unless, of course, you happen to be part...
Future plans for HRTO include a newscast, a sports program, a soap opera and an interview program...