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Personality Cult. Lately, ABC executives have begun developing a kind of personality cult around Westin in an effort to make him their own Fred Friendly, the former CBS News president who became a symbol of network dedication to quality journalism. Last week, for example, ABC broadcast a number of spots in which Westin, seated at a film-editing machine, asked viewers to watch the forthcoming IRS show. Yet Friendly's fame did not prevent him from resigning from CBS in 1966 because he thought the network's dedication to first-rate journalism was waning. (CBS had aired / Love...
...networks lately have shown increased willingness to examine TV's flaws in public. Still, documentaries in the expose vein - regardless of the specific subject - have problems on network TV. Says Av Westin, executive producer of the Closeup series: "Sponsorship has been slack. It's not an easy sell." In the New York market last week, Closeup's commercial slots were filled with public service announcements and plugs for upcoming ABC shows. And, though ABC showed spunk in airing the program, it did so on Labor Day. Any subsequent Monday evening would have assured a larger audience...
That view may be laudable. But if truth is not the council's business, who needs a news council? Among those who have no use for the council is ABC's Av Westin, director of the series in which the oil broadcast appeared. "We are fully responsible for our broadcast," he said. "The show stands...
...Much Ado About Nothing Award: To Av Westin, who hooted, when ABC Correspondent Tom Jarriel shoved his way to President Nixon at the Marine Stadium, "ABC scores again! That's exclusive, baby...
...Stars. During the fight over future delegate apportionment, the networks were virtually identical. The dispute itself, predictable from the start, was given gross coverage as the networks attempted to pump some suspense into the conflict. Av Westin, executive producer of ABC's Evening News, later confessed, "If you're covering fires and it is the only fire in town, you cover it, no matter how small...