61. It may or may not be coincidence that the network news divisions are presided over by men. 62. Its news division is also edging closer to ratings leader NBC. 63. Last Friday, ABC unilaterally implemented terms of a new contract that affected union members, including engineers who work in the news division. 64. Larson then asked ABC News for a copy of its policy guidelines on paying for interviews, and told the news division why he was asking. 65. Last year all three broadcast news divisions had to shrink their costs. 66. Leaders of network news divisions said their commentators would remind viewers that polls might still be open and would urge people to vote. 67. Make no mistake, however, Wall Street is applying great pressure on networks to find better business models for their news divisions. 68. Lev Koshlyakov, a former intelligence officer in Australia and Norway, is now chief of the news division of RTR, the government television channel. 69. Meanwhile, the technological bells and whistles of the football telecasts upped the ante, and set the standard, for the news divisions. 70. Most of them looked at their news divisions as strategic loss leaders. |