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...Pauley does acknowledge that she, along with Joan Lunden, co-host of ABC's "Good Morning, America," was one the first working mothers on television with young children...

Author: By Kelly A. E. mason, | Title: A News Anchor Balances Work and Home | 6/7/1989 | See Source »

...next year. In a separate action, the agency has begun reviewing a rule that bars broadcast networks from owning cable systems. The networks already have interests in cable channels that range from NBC's month-old Consumer News & Business Channel to the ESPN sports channel, a venture of ABC and RJR Nabisco...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tune In, Turn On, Sort Out | 5/29/1989 | See Source »

EVERYBODY'S BABY: THE RESCUE OF JESSICA MCCLURE (ABC, May 21, 9 p.m. EDT). Her Texas neighbors quarreled over the TV rights, but the story of 18-month-old Jessica's ordeal in a well was bound to reach the screen, come hell or high water. Beau Bridges and Patty Duke co-star in the docudrama...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Choice: May 22, 1989 | 5/22/1989 | See Source »

...large constituencies, yet they often seem motivated as much by ratings as by the public weal: political protest sells. In their inflammatory zeal, moreover, they tend to offer simplistic, emotionally satisfying remedies for complex problems. "It's a desperate attempt to get ratings," says Michael Jackson, the longtime ABC TalkRadio host. "Rather than tackling an issue from many angles, ((the activist hosts)) would sooner be the little boys with the bugles leading the charge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Bugle Boys Of the Airwaves | 5/15/1989 | See Source »

...REMEMBRANCE (ABC, May 7-10, 14). Yep, there's more. Last November's installment of Herman Wouk's World War II mega-saga was a ratings disappointment. But it left enough dangling threads for twelve more hours and five nights...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Choice: May 8, 1989 | 5/8/1989 | See Source »

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