Word: tonight
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fickle world of television, where most programs have precariously short lives, the long-running network news shows have proudly been the most resistant to change. But they're changing now, as ABC's World News Tonight - long a poor third - prepares to overtake the NBC Nightly News, while CBS's Evening News continues its reign...
...scene is different at the seven-story ABC News center on Manhattan's West Side, which, in the hours before World News Tonight hits the air, becomes a busy electronic workshop. In little warrens crowded with equipment, teams of directors and technicians labor to give visual excitement to the taped voices of ABC correspondents, patching quick-shifting background scenes, stunting with double dissolves and freeze shots to fill the exact 47 or 73 seconds allotted a story by the producer. Then comes a final mixing of words and pictures, with a Chiron machine imposing labels or texts in front...
Larry Bird makes his professional basketball debut tonight at Madison Square Garden in New York as the Boston Celtics open their exhibition season against the Philadelphia 76ers...
...television screenplay, based on a novel by Anton O. Myrer '44, is appearing this week on NBC television. The final segment of a 3-part series airs tonight...
...third-place NBC, and for Silverman in particular, the outcome may be crucial. The Tonight show is reported to bring in 17% of the network's pretax earnings, and it is a special prize for the affiliates, which can sell 50 minutes of local commercials on the show each week, compared with only 33 minutes for all of a week's prime time. If Carson, NBC'S top star, jumps to another network, presumably first-place ABC, more of NBC'S affiliates may abandon Silverman's leaky ship...