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Along with the original newscasts, the reconstituted Whittle Communications Educational Network plans to offer two broad categories of new programming. < Classroom Channel will feature educational material chosen by an independent advisory board, which will also determine whether the channel will accept advertising. Educators' Channel will offer instructional services for teachers and school administrators. But the ambitious scheme will still be funded by four 30-second spots during Channel One's daily newscast. The new plan no longer requires a school to offer the program in every classroom...
...watershed in American education. The company promises to provide 1,000 hours of free satellite time and $500,000 annually to make instructional programs accessible to participating schools. The Whittle network could even accommodate Channel One's recently announced cable competitors: CNN's Newsroom, a 15-minute daily newscast, and Discovery Channel's Assignment: Discovery, an hour of instructional programming...
...astounding admission of defeat--two days before the official results of Sunday's voting were to be released--came in a statement at the start of the evening newscast by party spokesperson Jan Bisztyga, who was shown sitting at the elbow of Solidarity national spokesperson Janusz Onyszkiewicz...
...former colonial capital of Hue. Communist shock troops penetrated the heart of Saigon to attack the U.S. embassy and presidential palace. They drove General William Westmoreland into a windowless command bunker. "What the hell is going on?" Walter Cronkite wondered aloud as he prepared the evening's newscast. "I thought we were winning this...
...Today, the bubbly national newspaper in love with factoids and the pronoun we, launched its own TV entry last week. But USA Today: The Television Show -- syndicated to 156 stations, most of which air it in the early evening - -- bears little resemblance to a newscast. The nightly half-hour is a buckshot spray of brief, lightweight features, snippets of interviews and idle trivia (limousine sales in the U.S. rose from 4,000 in 1983 to 7,000 in 1987). The closest it came to a breaking story was a behind-the-scenes glimpse of Robert Sheets, director of the National...