As you put together a show you have to assume that you are their only source of national and international news. You have to be the paper of record.
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So you have a built-in dilemma. Do you want to go after older people who watch news or younger people who watch ABC entertainment shows.Roone Arledge
He said, 'Of course, you understand we have to offer it to CBS and NBC first because of existing contracts. I was about to slit my throat.
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I want everybody in the news business to think of ABC before they go any place else. If it costs us an extra few thousand dollars to do that, what does it mean?
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I don't think any industry was ever as closely scrutinized and written about and constantly in the public eye as television.
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But if you cover the World Series on the news or do a feature on an Ali boxing match then all of a sudden ears go up all over the place and people say what the hell are you doing. The reason for that is that we're doing something that people are really interested in.
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I don't think people realize the extent to which TV networks are hurt when they carry public broadcasting. I think the estimate is that they lose a half-million dollars for a half day's programming.
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