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Article: Network news faces jeopardy // Game shows, local news tighten screws
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- March 25, 1987
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NEW YORK Each year the three network news divisions spend a
substantial portion of their respective $300 million annual budgets
on a nightly 22-minute broadcast, which may be the most costly
anachronism since Poland tried to stave off Hitler's armored
blitzkrieg with horse cavalry.
For in effect, these nightly newscasts are but a glimpse into
the Pandora's box of technology, economics and marketing problems
that have ensnarled the network news divisions of ABC, CBS and NBC in
confusion, change, reduced expectations and heightened competition.
Never before have the three networks confronted such challenges
to their dominance. Local stations around the country have expanded
their own ...