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...director explained the rules which will guide this first year NCAA procedure of district qualifying before the Nationals. In the past schools have been able to send teams or individuals directly to the Nationals, but last year's overcrowded championships at Northwestern forced a change to the district format...
Most athletic secretaries were dissatisfied with the new swimming format because it limited student participation to a single night. "One of our guys had to split for choir practice and that cost us six or eight points, " Powers said...
...whole new breed of TV comedy-variety show has evolved. It is the local newscast. Or at least the subspecies of newscast that has adopted what the trade calls the "happy-talk" format. On such programs the anchor man, the weatherman and the sportsman have been supplanted by a happy-go-lucky bunch of banana men. They are not the old authority figures, but just-folks team players. Cronkite is out; Gemütlichkeit is in. What counts is not how the banana men relate the news, but how they relate to each other...
...shed one anchor man and adopted a slightly folksier style. WABC's News Director Al Primo reports that "dozens" of out-of-town TV executives have flown into New York to scout his operation. By his count, some 60 stations are already employing some variation of the format...
...Survey of Broadcast Journalism expressed concern that the success of happy news could downgrade the standards of all TV journalism. On some stations, in fact, there are hopeful signs. A number of dabblers in happy talk are sobering up after their earlier excesses, and have settled on an informal format far superior to the original portentous and lugubrious style of TV news. Atlanta's WSB has toned down its forced spontaneity, and the ABC-owned station in Chicago, WLS, which was among the first to succeed with news giggles, has recently reverted to being just as straight and enterprising...