Word: networks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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During the interview, Banisadr provided some revealing glimpses into Iranian leaders' misconceptions about Americans. He insisted that by exposing the "entire network of corrupt dealings and ties between the Shah and U.S. Government officials," he might have caused Americans to turn on the Carter Administration. Said he: "It is only this policy that can persuade Americans to push for a different regime." He claimed that the Administration was playing a cynical game with the lives of the hostages. Said he: "I don't think that the Americans are concerned very much about the fate of the hostages. They...
...episodes in an otherwise reverential three-hour NBC-TV movie called Mary and Joseph: A Story of Faith that stirred religious controversy long before it was aired this week. Defending the show, the Rev. Richard Gilbert of Princeton Theological Seminary, one of several religious consultants called in by the network, says, "There is much in Mary and Joseph that is invented. There is nothing that could not have happened...
...past few seasons, television insiders have tended to talk mostly about two networks-front-running ABC and third-place NBC. Last week all that changed. After the 1979-80 season's first Nielsen sweeps, second-place CBS quietly rose to the top of the ratings. It was the first time since January 1976 that ABC had not won the network numbers game...
...Universe vanquished Klingons and Romulans before falling to the Ultimate Enemy, the Horribly Competitive Ratings War of 1968. At the end of the 1968-69 viewing season, NBC executives officially cut the Enterprise's "five-year mission" down to three years, and dropped the show from the network schedule...
...Each day at noon, he has faced an obstreperous crowd of 100 or so reporters in Room 2118 of the department's headquarters, fully aware that a slip on his part could provoke tragedy in Tehran. Nearly every night a portion of his performance is replayed on the network news programs. Precise, articulate and diplomatic for the most part, Carter has nevertheless managed to convey official outrage at the seizure of the U.S. embassy. His undiplomatic term for the Iranian students: gangsters...