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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...
Betty Shabazz thought it was her business. A family friend explains that she has always believed the Nation killed Malcolm, while the FBI declined to interfere. Asked on a WNBC television program whether Farrakhan was involved, she answered, "Yes. Nobody kept it a secret. It was a badge of honor. Everybody talked about it." In June, Farrakhan and Shabazz appeared on the same stage at a leadership summit in Baltimore; but they did not exchange words, and Shabazz's remarks were noticeably cold. Asked recently whether she stood by her WNBC statement, she replied that she had not changed...
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...
...native of New York's Long Island, Stern, 38, graduated from Boston University and began his radio career in 1976. But he didn't hit his shock- jock stride until joining Washington's WWDC in 1981. He then moved to WNBC in New York, but his lewd material, including sketches like Bestiality Dial-a- Date, got him fired. He was picked up by a struggling FM station, wxrk, in 1985, and in short order boosted its ranking from 21st...