Word: abc
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Black students of the late 1960s and early 1970s hotly disputed any link between race and grades. "That's an old racist argument," said A'Lelia Bundles '74, an ABC News producer in Washington. "This is the 'the neighborhood goes to the dogs when you let Blacks in' argument...
Nearly all the co-anchor schemes since Chet Huntley and David Brinkley broke up in 1970 (an entropy year: Huntley-Brinkley and the Beatles) have been awkward. ABC failed badly with Harry Reasoner and Barbara Walters. NBC's Tom Brokaw-and-Roger Mudd team was just as happy and long-lived. NBC once considered hiring Diane Sawyer as a co-anchor, and discussions of teaming Brokaw with, say, Jane Pauley will now revive. But, says Brokaw, "I'd be bored. There's not enough for two people to do." If ABC wants to switch to a co-anchorship...
...reality-check time in network television last week. After a blizzard of press attention and network hype, ABC finally brought forth Wild Palms, Oliver Stone's dazzling, challenging, future-shocked mini-series. It fizzled in the ratings. After years of twisting and turning in an effort to adapt to a new TV landscape, the networks unveiled their fall schedules. It looked like 1973 again...
This year the wind of change has turned into a familiar breeze. The 28 fall shows announced by ABC, CBS and NBC over the past two weeks (Fox is scheduled to weigh in this week) are a conservative, back-to-basics lot. The theme is old-fashioned, mass-audience entertainment, the kinds of shows the whole family can watch. Sitcoms next fall will favor tight-knit family units rather than funny workplaces, acerbic yuppies or angst-ridden teens. No quirky small towns, few hard-edged action shows and, surprisingly, only two new series with blacks in the leading roles (though...
Young demographics are more important at ABC, which was No. 1 in the important 18-to-49 age group this season, but the family orientation will be ( stronger than ever. Among the configurations that will be explored in ABC sitcoms next fall: a widow trying to raise four kids (Thea), an unemployed electrician turned househusband (Joe's Life); a divorced mother of three (Grace Under Fire); and a retired boxer -- played by former heavyweight champion George Foreman -- with a wife, two kids and a job counseling troubled junior-high students (George...