11.   The hourlong show gets it right from the very beginning, detailing the meager beginnings of Smith, Carlos, and another Olympic gold medalist, Lee Evans.

12.   The other is an hourlong live call-in show once a week.

13.   And when a radio talk show invited callers to tell ghost stories, taxi drivers, workers, housewives and students filled the hourlong show with personal accounts.

14.   NBC is trying to blunt the ratings of the hourlong CBS show during the February sweeps period when stations set ad rates for the next few months.