Word: newscasting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...newest evening newscast contains no crime footage, no clips of Bush and Dukakis trading jabs on the campaign trail, no fluffy features on roller- skating or baseball-card collectors. A typical show last week opened instead with a nearly 6-min. report on the upcoming election in Chile. That was followed by an examination of political unrest in Burma, which began in the leisurely tones of a travelogue: "Burma, a gentle land, devoutly Buddhist, dotted with the spires of golden pagodas, a place where time seems to be standing still...
...public radio stations. Its shortwave broadcasts, begun last year, will be heard in every part of the globe by early next year. A syndicated TV series (first monthly, later weekly) was introduced in 1985 and was seen on 103 stations before being supplanted this fall by the nightly newscast. This month also marks the debut of World Monitor, a slick monthly magazine on global affairs that hit its target of 250,000 subscriptions after just five weeks of marketing...
This is not to say the show was misconceived. The program was intended as a cheery supplement to the natural disasters and somber economic forecasts of the nightly newscast which it follows. Tinker, a proven NBC veteran, judged rightly that human interest is too often relegated to the last slot on the evening news...
...round out the 22 hours of weekly prime time, however, frantic programmers have been examining options ranging from the presumably uncommercial (an hourlong midevening newscast) to the self-satirizing, such as remakes of Mission: Impossible and The Hardy Boys featuring brand-new casts but using the original scripts. Other ideas: foreign imports and more nonfiction and magazine shows. Viewers seeking more attractive alternatives will find cable outlets such as Showtime/The Movie Channel and Home Box Office larding attractive programs into fall weeks, hoping they can lure new subscribers. The syndicators of Phil Donahue's talk show are touting additional installments...
VREMYA (The Discovery Channel, May 29 to June 2, 9 p.m. EDT). While Reagan and Gorbachev meet in Moscow, the Soviet Union's nightly newscast (its title in English: Time) will be transmitted to U.S. viewers for the first time...