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When TOM BROKAW steps down from the NBC Nightly News anchor's chair in 2004, he will have been with the peacock network for 36 years. In 1980, three years before he took over as anchor of the evening news show, Brokaw was fighting a morning-show ratings war as host of Today, beating CBS's Charles Kuralt and running neck and neck with ABC's David Hartman...
...Gets Peacock...
...what will the Peacock network have on hand to soothe our psyches next year? Entertainment president Jeff Zucker unveiled three sitcoms and two dramas for fall. Two sitcoms - in what promises to be another networks-wide trend next fall, the comedies will unfortunately also try to ride a wave of post-9/11 sentiment - were family-oriented. By "family-oriented," we mean, of course, plenty of jokes about sex and crotch injuries. On "The In-Laws," which is basically "Meet the Parents" with a married couple, two young marrieds move in with the wife's crotchety dad (Dennis Farina...
...into a studio analyst’s gig with the NBA on NBC. Williams won’t be previewing any Lakers-Kings games any time soon, as NBC announced yesterday that he will not be on-air until his legal issues are resolved. And even though the Peacock Network eventually did bring Marv Albert back after his highly-publicized sex scandal several years ago, it is unlikely that Williams will rejoin Ahmad Rashad behind the sports desk regardless of the matter’s final outcome...
...York on Thursday night; the weather stank. Outside the Waldorf-Astoria, demonstrators and cops shivered in a cold, persistent drizzle; inside, delegates sweltered in the over-heating that seems to tempt every hotel manager. As they negotiated the temperature gradient between Park Avenue and the Waldorf's Peacock Alley, you could also almost see, as well as hear, a thousand snuffles. The mood of attendees was not helped, either, by the never ending line for the hand-held gizmo that enables you to sign up for sessions remotely; I got mine at the third attempt...