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Later that night, at a party at the home of NBC Correspondent Richard Valeriani, 49, ABC's David Brinkley, 61, who ended a 37-year NBC career last September in a dispute with the abrasive Small, regaled the guests with a mock press release about the ousting of the executive. Describing the bitter and raucous incidents as "excessive," Small's embarrassed successor, Reuven Frank, 61, said last week: "It was as though somebody had uncorked something...
...dislike for Small, more than a resentment of interlopers from his old network. It was an edgy tension that pervades the highly competitive TV-news business in a time of change and uncertainty. The frantic mood has affected not only NBC journalists but their counterparts at CBS and ABC as well. On the day that Small resigned, CBS News President William Leonard, 65, had just finished cleaning out his desk to make way for the newly appointed Van Gordon Sauter, 46. The management shake-ups at both networks were part of an all-out network news ratings war that...
...latest and most furious ratings scramble among the networks began last March when CBS Anchorman Walter Cronkite stepped down to make way for Dan Rather. Cronkite's Evening News had consistently attracted the most viewers for 14 years, with NBC a strong second, ABC a distant third. Suddenly, however, all bets were off. While a visibly uneasy Rather adjusted to his new role, viewers began to drift to other channels. The major gainer: ABC News, which, since Roone Arledge took over as president in 1977, has fashioned a slick, fast-paced style of reporting that bristles with the latest...
...ABC News picked up new viewers, NBC was no longer safe in second place. Several times last year it slipped to third. Even CBS was threatened. Its executives were particularly dismayed when ABC, for the first time in its 28-year history of national news, scored first place in the ratings for several weeks last summer...
...clothes, see Morgan bathe, see Morgan melt in the hot tub), is one of those movies for grizzled old men who need a crutch under their chin and a drool bucket to pick up the overflow whenever the star appears, which is often. Fairchild, late of Flamingo Road, ABC's answer to Dallas, and one of the leading causes of righteous indignation in middle America, is hot staff, no question about that, in a world where blondes have more fun, it's a good bet that this lady has had more than her share...