Word: newscasting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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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...
...extended their evening reports from 15 minutes to half an hour in 1963. Shortly after the takeover, ABC launched an excellent nightly news special, The Iran Crisis: America Held Hostage, that has continued ever since. ABC will soon convert it to a regular 11:30 p.m. (E.S.T.) newscast; CBS and NBC are said to be considering late-night news programs of their own. Says PBS's Robert MacNeil: "TV has created a nation of news junkies who tune in every night to get their fix on the world...
...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...