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...nothing else, NBC executives seem guilty of violating a cardinal TV principle, the one about fixing things that aren't broken. Today is No. 1 in the morning-news ratings, and has been for nearly four years. Yet its margin over ABC's Good Morning America has been shrinking. For the past two weeks, Today has led by only 0.4 of a rating point, and it has fallen to second place in the key demographic group of women ages 25 to 54. "There were a lot of people who thought the show was a little stale," says an NBC executive...
...primary mission of television is to provide entertainment to millions of homes," said Harvey C. Dzodin, vice president of commercial clearance at ABC. "As a by-product, television keeps people informed...
Dzodin said ABC has worked hard to incorporate AIDS into prime-time television in both sitcoms and news programs. He described the tale of AIDS-infected Cynthia on "All My Children...
...race discrimination is wrong, women should get breast exams early and often. Sometimes the second task tends to overwhelm the first: that is, a show is so busy doing good that no one bothers to notice whether it is good. The new season's prime example is ABC's Life Goes...
...identical number of stories, five, about each. The Los Angeles Times published almost twice as many stories about the New York City crash (ten) as the one in Chad (six). In the New York Times, the LaGuardia crash rated twelve stories, the Chad disaster six. The networks reacted similarly: ABC's Nightline, for example, aired three cut-in reports and, later, a full show about the LaGuardia accident but nothing about the Chad crash. (TIME ran three paragraphs on the French airliner and two on the American plane...