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...husband while his wife Grace Anne started law school. Says he: "I finally understood viscerally what women go through. People focus on those few months I took off and not on the years that my wife put her career on hold." Koppel worked part-time anchoring an ABC weekend newscast until Arledge became president of ABC News in 1977 and stripped...
...career remained in a slump until 1979, when he substituted for Reynolds on a late-night special newscast. Says Arledge: "We discovered Ted had this wonderful ability to keep the conversation going in a way that everyone could follow...
...draw people into the craft. News organizations are trying in a variety of ways to make themselves more self-critical and more accessible to the public and to attune their reporters to asking themselves, "Is this fair?" rather than, "Will this make Page One or top the evening newscast...
...looked like the fertile territory for network TV news. Stymied by the resistance of affiliate stations to proposals for an hour-long evening newscast, troubled by the growth of Ted Turner's round-the-clock Cable News Network, and eager for new advertising opportunities, all three networks turned last year to the postmidnight, wee-hours wasteland of reruns and B movies. NBC and ABC each added an hour of late, late news; CBS added four. Vowed NBC News President Reuven Frank: "If changing life-styles mean people are ready to watch, we will do programs for them...
...probably helps more people on TV--he reaches hundreds of thousands here in Boston--than anywhere else," says Linda Pollack, executive producer of Boston's Channel 5 News at six, on which Miller's segments appear. According to Pollack, the newscast remains roughly tied for first with Channel 4 in the ratings. "Miller's a real asset in the race," she says...