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Officials at Harvard and the American Broadcasting Company (ABC) yesterday revealed details of an unusual symposium on voter turnout they are co-sponsoring this fall that will bring together President Reagan, former Presidents Carter and Ford, and a host of top government officials, politicians scholars, and journalists...
...shift in pattern was prompted by the death two weeks ago of ABC'S Washington-based anchor, Frank Reynolds. After he went on sick leave in April, ABC'S nightly news ratings dropped from second place to third, but the advantage went mostly to CBS. Those results convinced top officials at NBC that the pairing of the puckish Brokaw and dour Roger Mudd, 55, had little chance of catching on. A peripatetic workaholic, Brokaw has made mild fun of Mudd's reluctance to leave Washington in pursuit of story or spectacle. Though Brokaw continues to regard Mudd...
...ABC News, where President Roone Arledge has ardently wooed big names, staffers raised objections to Mudd as a potential anchor: he is a two-time castoff; hiring him would bypass ABC veterans; as a coworker, he is distant and demanding. Said ABC News Vice President Richard Wald: "We would rather have someone from inside." Among ABC correspondents, Jennings is the obvious choice. He was ABC'S anchor for three years, beginning in 1965, when he was only 27, and has been persuasive if cerebral as a London-based coanchor; since he shifted to Washington July 4 as a substitute...
...anchor at each network would be almost a first for the era since the three newscasts expanded to half an hour in the 1960s. The only other instance was during an eleven-month period in 1975 and 1976, when Cronkite competed with Chancellor at NBC and Harry Reasoner at ABC. The change would be most dramatic for ABC, which invented the multianchor "whiparound" because it lacked a single, forceful personality. Almost accidentally, ABC created a version of Marshall McLuhan's "global village," with newscasters focusing on diverse stories as they viewed the world from different places. Arledge...
...including the three major networks, were each required to put up a $750,000 deposit, refundable later without interest. "We had no funds, no office, no telephone," says Ueberroth, whose staff will swell from 425 currently to 35,000 by next July. "We needed an income source." The winner, ABC, will ante up $225 million, nearly three times what NBC paid for Moscow. Says ABC Sports Vice President John Martin, "Peter was tough, but fair. We should make a modest profit...