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...York City's WABC-TV, flagship station of the ABC-TV network. According to the complaint by the National Organization of Women, the station not only discriminates against women in employment practices but is antifemale in its basic approach, from programming to commercials. WABC'S local news, said NOW, is often given over to such "frivolous items" as women's pancake contests or stories about cheerleaders. Added to the station's own antiwomen programs, NOW charges, are commercials that reinforce "sex stereotypes" by showing women spending their days happily waxing floors or getting their laundry whiter...
...news jollies from third place to a leading spot. ABC-owned stations in both Manhattan and Chicago, usually next to nowhere in news rankings, leaped into contention for first. Within three years, WLS in Chicago has been able to quadruple its news commercial rate to $2,900 a minute; WABC in New York has enjoyed a remarkable 30% increase in billings since 1968. With that sort of financial flipflop, the CBS-owned Manhattan rival to WABC installed a jazzy new set two weeks ago, shed one anchor man and adopted a slightly folksier style. WABC's News Director...
...WABC's Primo insists that he does not "throw anything substantial away in order to get a light story in." On one recent night, however, the 11p.m. news reported only two of the twelve stories that were on the front page of the next morning's New York Times. Primo has developed one new star, Sportscaster Jim Bouton, the apostate pitcher. He has also shown enterprise in covering late-evening feature stories. The WABC drama and film critic, however, is a lightweight named John Schubeck, who gets regularly outclassed by WNBC's Edwin Newman. Television being television...
Sick Pun. Viewers of both genders will find their gourds rising at the occasional witlessness and tastelessness of the happy-talk humor. Reporting last year on the serious illness of Igor Stravinsky, a WABC banana man punned: "His heart is not right this spring." On Middle East stories, the station stoops to leads like, "Egypt and Israel continued to kick sand in each other's faces," or "The Israelis have as many reservations [about a truce continuation] as we have Indians." On Detroit's WJBK, a banana man playing Rowan to his forecaster's Martin asked...
...lighter side. Billy the G turned right onto route #87. He whispered down the road past the chartered limousines flicking radio knobs and searching for WABC. In the back Smith-field and the Daytona Flash traded down-home stories about the country and being on the road. And they stole into the Spa with only with sharp money being wiser...