Word: networker
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...would have had to get up pretty early in the morning to get ahead of the TIME staff members who worked on this week's cover story about the three network morning shows. Reporter-Researcher Elaine Dutka, for instance, rose in inky blackness to interview CBS' Charles Kuralt on the set of his program Sunday Morning, and again after he had become the daily host of Morning a few weeks later. Says Dutka: "Those hours were pretty disorienting. I'd be finished with my reporting at 9 a.m., when much of the rest of the world...
...editorial staff at the Time & Life Building in midtown Manhattan was heading home, the work of Manufacturing and Distribution was far from finished. With an impressive network of messengers put together by Ruth Pouliot, corporate operations manager for TIME, black-and-white pictures were rushed to the production office in lower Manhattan. She also hired a helicopter to shuttle color photos to an engraver on Long Island. Finally, the finished pages were flown or electronically transmitted to all 15 printing locations in the U.S. and overseas. By 8 p.m. the first presses were running. And by Thursday morning, TIME...
...conservatives usually grouped together to fight single issues, without any organizational network or institutionalized funding...
Over at CBS, Walter Cronkite, anchoring his last election before he retires next year, heard the news as he was reporting his network's latest electoral vote total for Reagan: 67. Viewers tuned to CBS may have been confused when Cronkite suddenly launched into a rather huffy defense of his network's methods of projecting winners. Taking a slap at "socalled exit polling, in which voters are interviewed when they leave the polling place," Cronkite insisted: "We make our estimates on the basis of sample precincts, of actual voters casting votes in those precincts...
...President Gerald Ford at the anchor desk with him in New York and President-elect Reagan in Los Angeles. Earlier, Ford had tried unsuccessfully to phone Reagan. So as the President-elect left the Century Plaza Hotel after claiming victory, CBS Correspondent Bill Plante persuaded him to hold a network headset to his ear and trade long-distance pleasantries with Cronkite and Ford. Said Ford: "You'll make a fine President." Responded Reagan: "This victory is certainly yours to share...