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...evening-newscast ratings were moribund and staff morale was low, when an ambitious young executive from the network's entertainment side took over the news division. Suddenly, conventional journalistic techniques were replaced with show-business razzmatazz. Good men were pushed aside. The ratings soared. Money poured...
...lavish news operations for prestige more than profit, but ABC News' poor ratings have been something of an embarrassment for the network, which this winter took a commanding lead over CBS and NBC in prime-time entertainment ratings. For the month ending May 1, ABC's nightly newscast had an average audience share of only 17%, a point lower than the average share for the month before Walters arrived last fall. By contrast, CBS'S evening-news share rose from 29 to 30 and NBC's from...
...movie's message is simple enough: Howard Beale (Peter Finch), the once popular anchorman of a national newscast, falls victim to the twin evils of booze and declining ratings, and Max Schumacher (William Holden), the head of UBS News, tells him he has to go. Suffering a momentary nervous breakdown, Beale goes on air to announce that in a week's time he will shoot himself on-camera. He has, he says, run out of the "bullshit" that kept him going...
...fault apparently is not in the star-who has fluffed nary a line, bantered easily with Reasoner, and put even more bite into her interviews than she did on NBC's Today show-but in her format. ABC's half-hour newscast was restyled to include Walters' interviews, unscripted dialogue and features on such self-help topics as health, psychology and personal finance. As a result, there has been less room for news. Reports from correspondents in the field, for instance, dropped to 140 in the first month of Walters' tenure, from 168 the month before...