Word: reuven
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...printed press does not show the reporter asking the question," says NBC News President Reuven Frank. "What is peculiar to television is that the intrusiveness is part of the story...
...round-the-clock Cable News Network, and eager for new advertising opportunities, all three networks turned last year to the postmidnight, wee-hours wasteland of reruns and B movies. NBC and ABC each added an hour of late, late news; CBS added four. Vowed NBC News President Reuven Frank: "If changing life-styles mean people are ready to watch, we will do programs for them...
...week Anchors Robert MacNeil and James Lehrer doubled up their MacNeil-Lehrer Report, a nightly half hour on some single topic that was the most widely viewed program on PBS, into a multi-issue roundup, The MacNeil/Lehrer Lehrer NewsHour. Though envious, the commercial networks applauded. Said NBC News President Reuven Frank: "We hope the hour is so successful that we are forced to emulate...
...after Reynolds died, NBC News President Reuven Frank demoted Mudd in a confrontation that Frank described as "painful but not acrimonious." Mudd was lured from CBS in 1980, after losing to Rather in the competition to succeed Cronkite, with the promise that he would become NBC'S sole anchor if John Chancellor stepped down. Later Mudd agreed to share the job to help NBC keep Brokaw. For his pains, Mudd was reassigned to what he does as well as nearly anyone else in television, political reporting. He announced his ouster to newsroom colleagues last Tuesday. Nothing was said...
...will interview newsmakers on Today and ease into some coverage of her third consecutive presidential campaign. Sums up Woodruff: "I am hooked on Washington, but I have been pinned down at the White House. There is so much that I have not yet seen." Her boss, NBC News President Reuven Frank, agrees: "Judy will cover ideas and trends, not primarily spot news. The White House may be glamorous, but this is meatier." -By William A. Henry...