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...hour later. Anchor Williams, meanwhile, was forced to pause at regular intervals, compose himself for the camera and start all over again--to provide updates for NBC affiliates picking up MSNBC's feed. The new channel's one coup: stunning live pictures of the burning wreckage, supplied by a WNBC-TV helicopter...
Nothing quite so juicy was happening on L.A. Law; the show has just got so darn good that New York City's WNBC-TV felt compelled to do a story. "If you watched NBC's L.A. Law tonight, it wasn't your imagination," gushed co-anchor Sue Simmons. "The show's writers, stars and especially its fans agree that the old L.A. Law magic is back...
...KABC's all-Jackson newscast crossed over the line. But generally they defend tie-ins as legitimate feature stories that help boost viewership, much as a newspaper's entertainment section or comics page does. "It's a question of balance," says Bruno Cohen, news director of New York's WNBC-TV. "Is there a place in a program for a good, interesting tie-in to what the prime-time programming was? Yes, if it's not overused, and the rest of the newscast does...
...have made many station executives uncomfortable with them. But not uncomfortable enough to refuse them. Infomercial telecasts have increased from 2,500 a month in 1985 to more than 21,000 today. "Most people are holding their nose but taking the money," says an executive at New York's WNBC-TV. "It's a lure and a curse...
...There were just dead bodies all over the place...It was the worst thing you ever saw," an unidenitified young man who arrived at the scene told WNBC-TV...