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...This has been one of the most rewarding jobs I've ever had--spiritually and intellectually," Valcovic says above the drone of National Public Radio's newscast...
...family-run enterprise that still gets 90% of its revenues from newspapers (50% from the Times alone). To date, the paper has been slow to expand into TV and the Internet, though it has a promising alliance with MSNBC, which runs a segment on its Brian Williams nightly newscast previewing a story from the next day's Times...
...affiliate in Chicago to do commentary. But to the two news anchors, sharing a show with the unabashed chronicler of America's most tawdry domestic dramas was like being asked to drink battery acid. On Thursday night, Carol Marin resigned on the air. "This isn't about one television newscast in one city," she says. "It's about the heart and soul of news." Ron Magers, her co-anchor, is still considering his options. Springer, who sees bigger fights than this on his show all the time, is unperturbed. "No one's grabbing their children off the streets," he says...
...News has hit troubles on several fronts. After eight years of ratings dominance, Peter Jennings' evening newscast, World News Tonight, has been overtaken in recent weeks by the snazzier, more cleverly packaged NBC Nightly News. Creatively too, ABC's flagship newscast seems adrift, first softening the show to combat NBC, more recently retrenching a bit and trying to reassert its hard-news credentials. Good Morning America, the No. 1-rated morning show for much of the '90s, has slipped into second place, well behind NBC's Today show. Of course the network still has the indispensable Nightline, which frequently beats...
...created Nightline, establishing a fresh beachhead for news in late night. In prime time he launched 20/20 and PrimeTime Live, each of which got off to a rocky start but was nurtured to success. He beefed up ABC's corps of producers and reporters; stabilized the skittery evening newscast and made it the highest rated on TV; and across the board made ABC the most watched and respected network for news...