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...ACADEMY AWARDS (ABC, March 25, 9 p.m. EST). Hollywood's annual fete is still king of all the awards shows. And Kevin Costner is grooming himself for this year's crown...
Even before the war, ABC had the highest-rated evening newscast (World News Tonight), the only established late-night analysis program (Nightline) and the deepest bench of star correspondents. During the war, that army of talent simply outgunned its rivals. The network boasted the most coolly authoritative anchor (Peter Jennings), the sharpest interviewer (Ted Koppel) and the best military analysts (Tony Cordesman, General Bernard Trainor). For lucid wrap- ups of the day's events, ABC was the place to turn -- and judging from its wide lead in evening-news ratings during the most heavily watched weeks, the place most people...
...dwindling roster of overseas bureaus and reporters may dwindle further. With the rapid-deployment capability the networks demonstrated in the gulf war, says ABC News president Roone Arledge, "maybe the bureau structure is not as important as it used to be. You still have to get out and cover the story, but you don't have to be on location all the time...
Actually, ABC's World News Tonight was one of the first to experiment with magazine-style elements, in features like its "Person of the Week." Yet the newscast hews most closely to the fading verities of network news: it pays the most attention to international affairs, seems the least enamored of show-biz gimmicks and human-interest fluff, and has the anchorman who most approximates the Cronkite-Huntley model of Olympian detachment. While CBS's Rather and NBC's Tom Brokaw jetted to the gulf for the start of the ground war, Jennings remained at his anchor post...
There may be a bright side for viewers in this new competitive landscape. For years the network newscasts have gone about their business in pretty much the same way, like three versions of the New York Times. Now that ABC has apparently grabbed that franchise, CBS and NBC may work harder to establish different niches. The challenge for them is to settle on a new game plan before they can no longer afford to remain in the match...