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...converts to such surround-sound effects will undoubtedly grow. "There are connoisseurs, and there are those who are just curious," says Joe Berini, chief engineer for KRON-TV in San Francisco, which went stereo last May. "Soon there will be people who just want to keep up with the Joneses." If only to drown out the noise coming from next door...
...example, a wine snob; he will swirl and sniff and smell the cork and send bottles back and otherwise make himself obnoxious on that one subject. Another person may take up, say, chocolate, and be able to discourse absurdly for an hour or two on the merits of Kron over Godiva. This kind of snobbery based upon a narrow but thorough trove of expertise is a bit depressing, because it reduces one of the great forms, snobbery, to the status of a mere hobby...
...million price, steep for a paper that lost $3 million last year, came entirely from loans, $17 million from Gannett. The chain's generosity was prompted in part by a federal antitrust regulation that prevented it from owning both the paper and a San Francisco TV station, KRON, which Gannett had avidly pursued. Says Maynard: "Gannett's position could have been stronger...
Adoption officials, too, remain wary about exploitation of the children in the necessarily selective and heightened vignettes. It took a year for San Francisco's KRON to win the blessing of the California department of social services for its The Waiting Child feature. "There were a lot of questions about sensitivity and commitment," says News Director Pat Stevens. Since the feature began appearing seven months ago, however, the concern and involvement of News Anchor Rita Channon have been amply evident; on several segments she has dabbed at her eyes while talking to a child. Says Joe Pecora, a suburban...
After unburdening himself, Kennedy rushed off as if he had a cab outside with the meter running. KRON thought so little of Kennedy's attack that it snipped it out before broadcasting the interview, but other reporters heard about it, and the headlines flared. The news soon reached Tehran, where the newspaper Ettela'at misguidedly interpreted Kennedy's statement as suggesting a "fundamental shift in public opinion in to the enemy and conceivably even jeopardized the hostages...