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...script at NBC was carefully plotted: Jane Pauley, 25, the corn-fed Catherine Deneuve who was the leading contender for a cut-down version of Barbara Walters' old job on the Today show, would join the program on Oct. 4-the same day, cunningly enough, that Million-Dollar Barbara started work at the ABC Evening News. That timing would have helped blunt the effect of ABC's extravagant promotion campaign to celebrate Walters' change of venue, and perhaps helped minimize NBC's embarrassment at losing television's No. 1 newswoman to a rival...
Barely a year ago, Jane Pauley was a second-string newsreader for a local TV station in Indianapolis. This week she goes on the air as the favored finalist in network television's most comprehensive talent hunt-well, since NBC went looking for a man to co-host the Today show with Barbara Walters in 1974. This time, the network is hunting for someone to replace Walters, who next month starts her $1 million-a-year job on ABC's Evening News...
...began last May after Walters announced her change of venue. NBC Vice Presidents Richard Fischer and Robert Mulholland screened some 150 tapes of local and network newswomen. Since July a dozen candidates have been brought to New York for interviews or live auditions, and three have reached the finals: Pauley, 25, who anchors the 5 o'clock news on NBC's Chicago affiliate; Consumer Expert Betty Furness, 60, who took the job provisionally when Walters left and completed her tryout last Friday; and Cassie Mackin, 38, a crack NBC Washington correspondent. After Mackin's final audition next...
...Morning News or ABC's fluffy Good Morning, America. But the ABC program, co-hosted by actors and spiced with gossip, has been stealing Today viewers, particularly younger ones. Today's new spontaneity is designed to win them back. Consequently, NBC'S search could end with Pauley. The honey-blonde from Indianapolis is young, poised and primly attractive. Viewer mail is running in her favor, and she even speaks like Barbara Walters...
...Pauley and Reagan didn't manage to ram the plan through at the Regents' last meeting in Los Angeles. Pressure from the chancellors delayed any conclusive decisions. But the plan is still poisonously healthy, and the Regents will have a chance at it again soon. Perhaps the chancellors' squawking will convince the Californians that the backlash at Sacramento has gotten out of hand. Reagan has gone over the brink, and he might drag the whole UC system down with...