Word: wabc
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...There's just something about me ... something that just doesn't work." The speaker was Author Truman Capote on WABC-TV's Stanley Siegel show. Before his TV appearance, Capote, 53, had taken booze and drugs. Rambling and incoherent, he spoke of eventually killing himself. The TV show followed a two-part article in the New York Times Magazine about Capote. Freelance Writer Anne Taylor Fleming wrote that the publication in 1975 of a gossipy chapter about his high society friends from Capote's long overdue novel, Answered Prayers, "quite simply changed his life." The result...
...however, the cost of anchors will probably soar even higher, if only because both anchors and their bosses know that stations can afford it. "Obviously there's a limit to what we can pay, but we haven't hit that limit yet," admits WNBC's Fein. WABC's Roger Grimsby may reach $300,000 when his new contract is signed this year, and Station Manager Nelson of WBBM predicts that salaries of top anchors will hit $500,000 within the next five years. Says one KNBC newsman: "Remember when you were a kid and the teacher...
While Ricks did not pursue it, the other side of his argument also holds up Dylan has never had a number one single (Like a Rolling Stone say the closest: it climbed to the sixth position of the WABC hit parade) and the Rolling Stones have always outsold him in terms of records But the appeal of the Stones is purely sexual Admittedly they are the masters of hard-core eroticism, but an Norman Matler said in a recent interview the Stones always bring you to a certain point and then leave you've been manipulated into a state...
Fury and Tears. Although he had no journalistic experience, his breezy enthusiasm impressed WABC executives looking for someone to fill a vacant ethnic slot (he is half Puerto Rican, half Jewish). Rivera wasted little time on one-alarm fire assignments before digging into his own niche as the station's "slum-dope reporter." He made his name with a three-part report on the Drug Crisis in East Harlem, which gave names and faces to drug-abuse statistics with portraits of three heroin addicts. In 1972 he sneaked a camera crew into the Willowbrook State School for the mentally...
...with more experience. Others point to his aggressive tactics. Last fall, for instance, Rivera decided to cover the Israeli war. When the station's decision was to send no one, Rivera dashed over the station director's head to the network and wangled an O.K. Says one WABC executive, "Geraldo lines people up behind him to fight for what he wants, and then plays them off against one another...