Word: quinn
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...when networks and their affiliates air news and local programs. That is the only time when independents feel they are competitive, and they are willing to pay a lot for a show. But All in the Family is ineligible for that time slot. So are crime series. Quinn Martin, who produces The Streets of San Francisco and Cannon, predicts: "It's going to force the networks into giving producers more money to make these shows if we can't make any money from syndication...
...reaction from the press, Quinn has heard little from people at CBS. Aside from Hughes Rudd, her co-anchor on the show, to whom the book is dedicated, only Mike Wallace has called her. Quinn portrays him as a boorish sexist who sniped at her continually behind her back at CBS. "He said that he was sorry, that he hadn't realized I felt that way. I think he was stunned by my perception of him." Don Hewitt, a producer who went with Quinn to London as her director for the coverage of Princess Anne's wedding, and who Quinn...
...Quinn blames almost everyone in the chain of command at CBS for the fiasco. "I suppose you'd have to say that Gordon Manning made the most mistakes, but they were mostly sins of omission, just not doing anything. But [Richard] Salant was president of CBS News: he knew what was going on. They all knew what was going on. And they must not have done something for a reason...
...account is to be believed, the disaster was probably worst of all for Sally Quinn; the embarrassment certainly was. But now back with the Post, she has regained her stature as a journalist, and she seems far away from her self-described nightmare at CBS. For her part, she contends that it was "a good experience...
...valuable. I learned a lot about other people--their motivations, their fears, and their insecurities. And I learned a lot about television--not as much as I would have liked to." A slightly triumphant smile crosses her face. "And I also got a book out of it." From Sally Quinn's point of view, she is having the last laugh, and she's going to enjoy...