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Little more than a year later, the boom has gone bust. ABC canceled its late-night effort and may trim the expanded 60-minute Nightline back to half an hour. CBS has reduced its Nightwatch to two live hours plus repeats, and last week announced further on-air staff cuts. Also last week, the ax fell on the best of the shows, NBC'S Overnight, which drew 1.5 million households a night but lost $10 million. Said Executive reducer Deborah Johnson: "Apparently cable is no longer viewed as such a threat " Explained Frank: "Overnight was our finest hour...
Executives of the three commercial networks happily predict a marked increase in the number of televised debates. NBC, ABC and CBS have already dispatched telegrams to the Democratic and Republican National Committees inviting candidates to participate in on-air debates some time next year. Broadcasters maintain that they will be able to bring greater flair to staging the encounters than the league was able to do. Says CBS Senior Vice President Gene Mater: "We can do a better job. Communications is our business...
Before being hired by NBC in 1977, she said to an associate, "I'm going to be a network anchor, and I'm going to do it fast." In short order, Savitch was a cool and collected on-air presence in American living rooms. She covered the 1980 political conventions, anchored NBC's Saturday edition of the nightly news and was a featured correspondent on the network magazine shows Prime Time Sunday and NBC Magazine. Her greatest exposure came from 60-second prime-time updates, now called NBC News Digest, which she began...
Given the Law School's reputation and its faculty's achievements, it seems natural, then, that when a business needs outside legal advice, it often calls upon Harvard professors. So when the producers of "Good Morning, America" and a local Boston newscast wanted an on-air legal expert, they asked Miller, a nationally renowned expert on civil procedure appointed by Supreme Court Chief Justice Warren Burger to serve on one of the court's advisory committees. Similarly, when Fred Friendly, the former president of CBS News, needed three experts to moderate his "Media and Society" seminars and his PBS series...
...television show 60 Minutes. A Few Minutes proves that spoken word doesn't always transfer well to the written page. And More, however, collects more than a hundred of the humorist's syndicated columns and thus avoids the inherent limitations imposed by A Few Minutes. Without Rooney's on-air perplexed persona and throaty voice, those essays too often seemed-pointless and dull--as might a written transcript of Jimmy Stewart's Tonight Show anecdotes...