Word: salant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Last week Richard Salant, Friendly's predecessor as CBS News president, became his successor as well...
...Richard Salant, President of CBS News, did some justifiable bragging about the best part of television, pointing out that 17% of the network's total programming is in the news area, and that this year CBS has almost half again as many public-affairs shows as it had last season. (If this was in response to Minow's prodding, he did not say so.) Stanton picked up the theme of TV's inherent greatness -"new worlds, new horizons, new experiences"-and promised that in the American cultural boom of the soaring sixties, television would develop...
With this Murrow's former boss agreed. "All CBS Reports shows are scheduled to go into full syndication, including foreign," said Richard S. Salant, president of the network's subsidiary, CBS News, which televised the show. "Murrow knew that at the time and knows it now." By week's end Murrow seemed to agree with his critics. His transatlantic intervention, said he ruefully, was "both foolish and futile...
...departure was fresh evidence of the top-level convulsions that have shaken CBS's news division since a sweeping reorganization was undertaken last December. Ordered by CBS President Frank Stanton, it put the division under a newly formed News Executive Committee headed by Attorney Richard S. Salant, 46, who has spent much of his nine years with CBS as the network's public-and Government-relations representative in Washington. Just two days before Mickelson walked out, his second in command, News Vice President John F. Day, 47, quit because the reorganization had made his position "untenable." "We have...
...replace Mickelson as president of the news division, CBS President Stanton named Attorney Salant. John Day's successor is Blair Clark,- 43, a onetime St. Louis and Boston newsman, former publisher of a New Hampshire weekly, and CBS radio correspondent since 1953. whose new title is general manager and vice president of the news division, and who graduated from Harvard in Jack Kennedy's class...