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...sobriquet "Attila the Nun" by rooting out the wrongdoers with the wrath of God and a team of lawyers and accountants that ran up a tab of more than $2 million. "It looks like you sent in the whole damned Marines to rescue a cat," Vice Chairman Richard Salant reportedly quipped at a staff meeting...
...renaissance is being felt most acutely by NBC. That network was plagued by uncertain corporate and news leadership through most of the 1970s, and only last year began to get its administrative house in order. Facing mandatory retirement at CBS, Richard Salant, 65, signed on as vice chairman for news at NBC, which has no set retirement age. In August he recruited Bill Small, a hard-driving former CBS Washington bureau chief, to be president of NBC'S news division. Says Small: "We are going to be hiring producers, correspondents, whatever, to increase our bench strength...
...Salant and Small have their hands full, and not only with the Nightly News, which has as its host the literate but low-key John Chancellor, 52. The network's eight-month-old magazine show, Prime Time Saturday with Tom Snyder, is floundering. In addition, the Today show, its once prolific profit maker (a reported $7 million last year), has lately slipped in the ratings behind ABC's Good Morning America, a homey mix of news, gossip, interviews and self-improvement tips. Today's own efforts to be more folksy and entertaining have only undermined its prestige. Recalls...
...have to be gleaned by the U.S. press in roundabout fashion: placing long-distance phone calls to Iranian officials and foreign diplomats in Tehran; making arrangements with the remaining Western reporters and TV crews; monitoring Iran radio and Pars, the country's national news agency. Still, says Dick Salant, NBC'S vice chairman for news: "This is a major story and we should be there reporting it with our own people...
...Salant labors to improve that troubled network's Chancellor-Brinkley Nightly News. This has put him in a two-way fight with ABC's Arledge: several times this summer ABC News topped NBC in the ratings, a trend that will take time to reverse. Salant sounds like a football coach after a bad loss: "NBC has got to get its pride back. I can't stand this 'you win some, you lose some' attitude." Salant has hired Bill Small, a top CBS executive, to shake up NBC News. "They say morale's bad, wondering...