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...Wednesday reporters from the French news agency Agence France Presse and ABC News were invited by militiamen to walk out onto the tarmac to have a chat with TWA Captain John Testrake, 57, pilot of the ill-fated Flight 847. He sat in the cockpit, looking fit but somewhat in need of a shave, with a pistol- toting gunman at his side. Not far away was the hulk of a Jordanian airliner destroyed by Shi'ite terrorists a week earlier...
Phyllis McGrady certainly does not act bellicose. As executive producer of ABC's Good Morning America, she seems relaxed, soft-spoken, charming. But there she is, sitting in her Manhattan office, comparing the race among the three network morning shows to a pitched battle worthy of the Iliad. "The competition is ferocious," McGrady says. "It's war games, the combat zone." Several blocks away, Steve Friedman, executive producer of NBC's Today show, seems like ideal fishing-trip company: funny, good-hearted, gregarious. But turn to the subject of Good Morning America and Friedman climbs the ramparts. "They want...
...three networks snap, crackle and pop for rating points. The fray has always been fierce, but the brawl for the top spot is now more frenzied than ever. After gradually closing in on Good Morning America for more than a year, the Today show has beaten or tied its ABC competitor five weeks in the past three months, thus breaking GMA's 163-week hold on first place. Though Today still spends most of its time as a close second,* the taste of victory brings fresh confidence to the NBC corridors. "We think we will be No. 1," says Today...
...would ask is not given to self-doubt. Told of a comment by NBC's Friedman that "David Hartman is getting older and more tired," Hartman does not bat an eye. "Well, I am getting older," he says as he finishes his stretching exercises on the floor of his ABC office. "That's quite an observation." But is David Hartman weary? "I'm just as excited about this job as I ever was." So saying, Hartman is out the door, heading for Central Park and his regular five-mile run -- and not pausing to look over his shoulder for competitors...
FOOTNOTE: *The latest count gives ABC a 5 rating, NBC 4.5 and CBS 3.2. That translates into 4.2 million sets tuned to GMA, 3.8 million to Today and 2.7 million to Morning