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...news and public affairs programs often seem calculated to rock the boat. A series called Opinions gives a public figure 30-min. of airtime each week to expound on a controversial topic (Germaine Greer on Margaret Thatcher, Edward Teller on nuclear defense). Channel 4's 50-min. nightly newscast skips crime reports and the doings of royalty in favor of probing political analyses and stories on business, science and the arts. A 1985 documentary touched off a political scandal when it revealed that MI5, Britain's counterintelligence agency, had engaged in illegal wiretapping of union officials and political activists...
...coverage on Tuesday from Washington, where the big story was the inquiry into the explosion of the space shuttle. And on ABC, coverage of the drama in the Philippines began in Moscow, where World News Tonight Anchor Peter Jennings was fighting off a bad cold. After opening Monday's newscast with sniffles and a rasping voice, he passed the baton to Ted Koppel, who wanted to be in Manila but was stuck in Hong Kong. He, in turn, switched to Correspondent Jim Laurie in Manila, who threw it back to Sheilah Kast in Washington...
...viewership has tripled since 1981, when Robertson switched from an all-religion schedule to a family entertainment approach, combining Christian shows with wholesome reruns (Flipper, Father Knows Best), westerns, old movies and game shows. Two weeks ago the network premiered CBN News Tonight, a regular evening newscast produced in Washington, with special emphasis on right-wing issues...
...hype, you know it. But in between Yosemite Sam-style half-swallowed profanities, you can't help wondering whether he got it cut below the ear or in a more fashinable high-and-tight. Static swallows the remainder of the newscast; you reach the city limits, and the radio swells back on: "...late-breaking news, folks...(some annoying feedback here)...it was...fizzle, fizzle...a high and...(more bothersome static)...tight...
...Today in 1980 as the early-morning pacesetter. In the same era, ABC's News division became a full-fledged rival of CBS and NBC for the first time. The network hired away such respected TV journalists as Harry Reasoner and Barbara Walters from competing networks. Its evening newscast, despite a confusing succession of changes in format and anchors, moved steadily upward in audience numbers. And in 1979, during the Iranian hostage crisis, ABC launched network TV's first regularly scheduled late-night news program, the provocative, high- voltage Nightline, with Anchorman Ted Koppel...