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VIDEO: Jane Pauley's star keeps on rising...
...lingers is a fond memory in the mind's eye. That is how it has gone for even the biggest stars, from Red Skelton to Walter Cronkite. NBC doubtless imagined it would be no different when it undertook to freshen the Today show by easing veteran co- anchor Jane Pauley toward the sidelines. But in the eight months since Pauley announced she would resign from the show, after seeing her role threatened by the advancement of the younger Deborah Norville, the fortunes of Today have steadily plummeted while Pauley's popularity has only risen. Ironically, she seems to have become...
...only to Tom Brokaw, who has held the post since 1982. But to boost ratings and, NBC said, to exploit Brokaw's skills as a reporter, the network plans to send him out on the road far more often: at least three times a month. Whenever he is away, Pauley will serve as "sub-anchor." Says Nightly News executive producer Steve Friedman: "Tom will be at the People's Congress in Moscow in July and then the NATO summit in London, but he'll be doing more than the big news on the road. We'll be trying to find...
There have been signs of trouble at Today since early 1989, when someone leaked a memo in which Gumbel attacked almost all his colleagues except Pauley. After that, it was hard to maintain the fiction that the Today crew was a happy family, and analysts began to note that while Today was first in the ratings, Good Morning America was stealing the young female audience most prized by advertisers. Pauley's awkwardly handled departure -- it looked to many as if she had been supplanted by the younger Norville -- turned a problem into a catastrophe...
CAPTION: Post-Pauley Syndrome...