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Concerned that ABC, CBS and NBC will cut away to adventure series, the G.O.P. has formed its own Republican National Committee network (RNC) to cover the convention. With ten cameras and a 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...
Indeed, the platform, like the convention, promises to be a near-perfect reflection of Ronald Reagan. When he strides up to the beige-and-brown podium Thursday night to give his acceptance speech, he is expected to aim more at voters' hearts than heads, striking many of the themes that have been the hallmarks of his presidency: optimism, patriotism, traditional values. Republicans are hoping that Reagan's rhetorical powers will produce a postconvention bounce in the polls similar to what the Democrats got out of San Francisco. For the Great Communicator, it is another big opening night...
...Carl, who as usual was half an hour late. He arrived wearing a red leather shirt perforated by hundreds of tiny holes, with black zippers running up the sides. Classic Carl. Some reporters noted that his Olympic haircut made him look like the singer Grace Jones. At the podium as on the track, Lewis is a practiced performer. He even critiqued the inquiries. "That's a great question," he told a British journalist who asked him whether he was running for the money or rather, like Jesse Owens, to become a folk hero for mankind. "My objective," he answered...
...medal. It was the first team medal ever won by the U.S. in women's international gymnastics competition. The moment fully lived up to Retton's expectations: "It was just like I dreamed it, the excitement, the tension, the crowd, the feeling you have standing on the podium with an Olympic medal...
Reporters for wire services and major newspapers, by contrast, were tucked away on platforms placed diagonally behind the podium: even when standing, many of them could not see the speakers, the delegates or much of anything else except the glowing network insignia and the distant figures of CBS's Dan Rather, NBC's Tom Brokaw and ABC's Peter Jennings and David Brinkley. Said Editor Robert Maynard of the Oakland Tribune: "This is just another dramatic example that TV has completely taken over center stage in American politics...