Word: pbs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...being extended to other networks as well. Metromedia will be sending crews later this month. Says John Parsons, news director of Metromedia's WNEW-TV in New York City: "We'll go to nightclubs and farms and see the people at work and at play." In December, PBS's Inside Story plans to examine U.S.-Soviet relations on a show that will include conversations between scholars of the two nations beamed via satellite. CNN is negotiating to air Soviet programs as part of an exchange package...
...staff of 40, RNC is offering commentary-free, live feeds of the podium action to any television and radio station or groups of stations willing to pay a nominal fee of about $200. So far, the Republicans have signed up 38 television groups, including CSpan, Group W and PBS, and two large radio groups, Mutual Broadcasting System and Associated Press. In all, an estimated 1,048 television stations will have access to the party-generated material. Says White House Television Adviser Mark Goode, who is directing the RNC operation: "The country will be pretty well saturated...
This is a curious position to take for a man who has written what many call the best and most comprehensive history of the Vietnam War, and has received critical acclaim and high ratings for his 13-part IV documentary on the war for PBS being shown for the second time this summer...
...counter this, Karnow seems to come off as more conservative--or at least moderate--than he would otherwise. He notes that most criticism of his PBS series has come from the left end of the political spectrum. But his pitch is basically non-ideological. He demands that we know more than a superficial history of Vietnam--his book traces Western involvement in the region back five centuries--but also that we know when and when not to use that knowledge...
...author is unsparingly accurate about the R.A.F. 's highly inflated claims of shoot-downs and its antiquated early tactics. But he never loses admiration for the sacrificial pilot, and his sentiments are dead on target: midway between Catch 22 and The Winds of War. A natural for a PBS miniseries, Piece of Cake could run on Masterpiece Theater just as easy...