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Speaking on ABC's "This Week With David Brinkley" in an interview from Manila, Lugar added: "No one has any idea who's ahead...
Grace hoped that the commercial would premiere on network TV following Reagan's State of the Union address. But CBS, NBC and ABC refused, calling the ad too politically charged. Not easily deterred, Grace took his ad to local and cable channels and got a more enthusiastic reception. The Cable News Network and the Independent News Network, along with individual stations in Chicago, New York and Washington, agreed to air Deficit Trials following Reagan's speech...
...magnitude of the tragedy commanded the nation's attention. Even the White House staff and some NASA controllers in Houston admitted later that they watched television throughout the day for whatever news could be gleaned. "We all shared in this experience in an instantaneous way because of television," said ABC Anchorman Peter Jennings. "I can't recall any time or crisis in history when television has had such an impact...
...three broadcast networks broke into regular programming within six minutes and stayed on the air for more than five hours; each returned later for an hour-long prime-time special. (The commercial-free coverage cost the networks an estimated $9 million in lost advertising revenue. ABC switchboards also fielded more than 1,200 complaints about pre-empted soap operas...
...Saturday--To help ABC's sagging Monday Night Football ratings, former correspondent How-wad Cosell dons a football uniform and makes a special appearance in the same backfield with The Refrigerator. As a result, Cosell's publishers change the names of his bestseller "I Never Played The Game" to "I Played the Game. Once...