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Phillip Blanchard	Post subject: "You should be outside playing!" Posted: Thu Jun 12, 2003 12:57 pm
Joined: Sun Apr 07, 2002 1:01 am Posts: 8342 Location: Bethesda, Md.	With Chet and David at the helm, NBC News enjoyed ratings dominance throughout the 1960s. During the 1964 Democratic convention, NBC, up against CBS and its anchor Walter Cronkite, won an astonishing 84 percent of the viewership. (AP)<p>***Robert Trout and Roger Mudd "anchored" 1964 Democratic Convention coverage for CBS. How sad is it that I remember that?***
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jjmoney62	Post subject: Re: "You should be outside playing!" Posted: Thu Jun 12, 2003 4:51 pm
Joined: Mon Apr 08, 2002 12:01 am Posts: 3135 Location: Albuquerque, N.M. USA	The double deaths of 2 legends in the same news cycle (like Sammy Davis Jr. and Jim Henson about a decade ago), reminds me of the final-markets wrapper we put out at the Sun-Times the day actor Robert Young and some astronaut (Shepherd?) died on the same day. The news editor of the day twinned them under the headline: Two Die Who Had the Right Stuff.<p>Did they try it again today? What was the hook -- the clipped speech of Brinkley & Peck? Sample hed: Goodnight David; Goodnight Peck.
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