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...cities where overnight ratings were available, nearly twice as many mortals as usual were watching ABC, and as many as watched CBS and NBC combined. Walters' debut was as crisp as a new $100 bill. That, incidentally, is about what she makes for every minute on the newscast, and she earned it. Walters fluffed nary a line, and even had two modest opening-night scoops. Newly deposed Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz suggested by telephone shortly before air time that Jimmy Carter should follow his example and resign for using lewd language. Egyptian President Anwar Sadat disclosed in a taped...
Archie Bunker seeks sexual fulfillment with a waitress. Rhoda and Joe bust up. Charlie Haggars undergoes television's first testicle transplant. Maude's Arthur goes bankrupt. Ted Baxter has a heart attack in mid-newscast. Lionel Jefferson marries Jennie. Florida loses her husband. McMillan loses his wife, his sidekick and his housekeeper...
...year BBC named Andrew Todd, a determined Scots purist, its television news editor, and he set out to stiffen the network's upper lip again. Todd scrapped the two-man format and banned clichés. He spotted Rippon reading bulletins on the network's late-night newscast and promoted her to prime time. Now she reigns as one of BBC's four newscasters, who appear alone in regular rotation...
Many in television are ex-newspapermen and, being aware that an entire half-hour newscast would not fill even one newspaper page, are apologetic for the superficiality and skimpiness of what they do. They hope to see network news shows extended to a full hour. Perhaps they should relax a little: in four minutes a night, they are not going to make anyone knowledgeable in Keynesian economics. All forms of journalism have their own point of satiety. Richard Salant, president of CBS News, says that Cronkite "has often said, but never meant" that he longs to end a broadcast...
...most popular skit. "It's the last thing we do," Franken said. "We throw it together around two in the afternoon on Saturday and add jokes throughout the day, right up to air time." Much of "Update" is direct satire of occurences of the previous week. On one newscast, Chase reported...