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That is in effect, if not in fact, what Arledge will be doing to Reasoner by removing him from the Evening News and giving him no other on-air assignment, though Reasoner's $500,000-a-year contract does not expire until 1980. Reasoner wants to return to CBS, where he has been offered a job as head of its documentary unit. Whether or not Arledge will release Reasoner from his contract remains uncertain. Arledge says only that he is not happy with Reasoner's present role, and anyway wants to put less emphasis on personalities and more...
...could in fact work," says Maria, who graduated last spring from Washington's Georgetown University. She sees TV as a way of bringing social problems, like those in Appalachia and Watts, to public attention, and she thinks she can do this better as a producer than an on-air personality. "I don't think of myself as the next Barbara Walters," Maria explains. "I'd prefer to be the next Roone Arledge...
Barbara Walters' mission in moving to ABC was to pull the network out of last place in the evening news sweepstakes. In two months on the job, she has delivered 300 news items, conducted 17 on-air interviews, and smiled bravely through 38 of Co-Anchorman Harry Reasoner's sign-off witticisms. The result: ABC is still last and, in fact, further behind the leader...
Here it is, folks! The week you have been waiting for, the week the networks premiere their brand-new, grand new ... ah ... product mix. Admittedly that phrase falls a trifle lamely on the ear, lacking as it does the excited tone of the on-air promos they have been pumping at us all summer. It does, however, have the virtue of accuracy. To begin with, the "new season" consists mainly of old stuff. Among television's 70 regularly scheduled prime-time programs, no fewer than 45 are carryovers from last year (and, in several instances, the year before...
...your highness?" piped the bug-eyed puppet. The guest shook his head, smiled, and replied: "Most people use the name Mr. Mayor." So began the first of a weekly series of appearances by Carl Stokes, the first elected Negro head of a major U.S. city and the most winning on-air mayor for the kids since New York City's Fiorello La Guardia read the comics...