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...another fact of TV life that is becoming increasingly apparent: they are no longer the only game in town. The gavel-to- gavel duties have largely been taken over by Ted Turner's Cable News Network and C-SPAN, the cable public-affairs channel. Operating on its home turf, CNN had a force of some 300 at the convention, up from 275 in '84, and proved to be a fully muscled competitor to the Big Three. Meanwhile, the convention floor was teeming with local-station crews searching for the hometown angle and conveying a bit of the bustle...
Last week Jackson redefined his terms. "Well," he told an interviewer, "consideration does mean offered. It does not mean just in passing." To a CNN correspondent, he indicated that he would press Dukakis hard: "I'm going to push him until I get a response." He contended that the 6.7 million people who voted for him (vs. 9.7 million for Dukakis) had earned representation on the Democratic ticket. When asked why he was now pushing for a job he once spurned, Jackson proved yet again how eloquently he can cloak his own ambition in historic significance. "For some people...
...sent between 80 and 100 people to Moscow -- "barely enough to do what we needed to do," asserted CBS News President Howard Stringer. Though the summit dominated regularly scheduled newscasts, none of the three networks aired a prime-time or late-night special on the subject. And except for CNN (which devoted about 50% of its schedule to the doings in Moscow), live coverage was relatively sparse. When Reagan appeared at Moscow State University on Tuesday for an extraordinary question-and-answer session, CNN carried the event live in its entirety, but of the networks only...
...only anchor to get a face-to- face encounter with Gorbachev. It came by chance when the CBS crew, shooting inside the Kremlin, spotted the Soviet leader's entourage. While CBS Executive David Buksbaum created a diversionary scene, Rather squeezed past security guards for a few brief questions. (CNN's Steve Hurst also managed to corral Gorbachev separately for a short interview...
While U.S. news broadcasts are reaching a growing audience abroad, foreign reports are also starting to flicker across American TV screens. Every week CNN World Report features 2 1/2 hours of uncensored stories from broadcasters throughout the world. Any news agency is free to contribute, although CNN reserves the right to cut segments longer than three minutes. Since World Report went on the air last fall, 86 news organizations in 80 countries, ranging from Argentina to Zimbabwe, have participated. A segment from Uruguay's SAETA TV, for example, reported on Pope John Paul II's recent tour of four South...