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The Seven O'Clock Supermen
Smith, Desmond | March 18, 1968 issue

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The article focuses on the popularity of news stars that act as a yardstick to the performance of a particular network. Some of them are Bob Young, Walter Cronkite, Huntley-Brinkley. Every weekday night at 7, an estimated 50 million Americans turn to their TV sets to watch Bob Young (ABC), Walter Cronkite (CBS) or Huntley-Brinkley (NBC) bring them the news. The star system came to television news during TV's precocious infancy, the 1940s. It came from Hollywood where tradition held that stars, not stories, sold tickets.

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POPULARITY; BROADCAST journalism; CRONKITE, Walter; YOUNG, Bob; TELEVISION broadcasting of news; READERS
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