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...growing network reliance on news, sports and other live events. The networks feel that their resources and experience give them a big advantage over cable operators in these areas. But Turner's improving Cable News Network already reaches 11.25 million homes. Another cable news service, jointly owned by ABC and Group W, starts June 21 in an estimated 2 million households. By that time, Turner's second round-the-clock news service will be available to broadcast stations. This venture, called CNN2, may pose the first serious challenge to the networks as exclusive providers of news to their...
...this jockeying for the future is painfully costly in the present. Turner has lost an estimated $50 million. The ABC-Group W operation projects large initial losses. And CBS will not disclose how large an audience is needed to break even on its new service, which will cost an estimated $10 million annually. But among CBS affiliates there is widespread enthusiasm. The chairman of the affiliate board, James Babb, executive vice president of WBTV in Charlotte, N.C., says: "If this is a way of stemming long-range losses [to cable], then the short-range benefits may not be easily measurable...
...traditions are bending in the Evening News, they are snapping in the Morning News. On March 15, Sauter's CBS will unveil a new version of the traditionally hard-news-oriented morning report, fashioned to compete directly against NBC's Today and ABC's Good Morning America. Produced by former GMA Soft-News Whiz George Merlis, the new Morning will feature Bill Kurtis, a peppy, popular newsman imported from Chicago, in place of Charles Kuralt, as well as such other contributors as ex-GMA Show-Biz Correspondent Pat Collins and regular business, science and medicine reporters. Merlis...
...local stations, the Ohio-born Sauter spooked the normally self-confident CBS News staff with the pronouncement: "Today is the first day of the rest of your careers." He quickly purged the Evening News production staff of Cronkite's crew, added electronic music, a new set and ABC-style computerized control-room gadgets. CBS even adopted ABC'S penchant for hyping upcoming stories throughout the newscast...
...gears up to battle ABC News by co-opting some of its flashy style, NBC News is hoping to win new viewers the old-fashioned way with Reuven Frank. Frank, who spent the past few years exiled to the twelfth floor at NBC, known as the elephant graveyard, is as widely admired by the staff as Small was disliked. Says former NBC News Producer Clare Crawford-Mason: "Reuven is not interested in beating people over the head with value judgments about the news. He thinks the audience is intelligent enough to make up its own mind." As an NBC News...