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Newspaper
Independent
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1976
Page
11
The 1968 style convention coverage returns with gavel-to-gavel and edited formats across CBS NBC and ABC from Kansas City Missouri. Walter Cronkite Harry Reasoner and guests anchor live and taped segments as CBS NBC and ABC race for viewer attention while PBS and local channels add commentary and specials.
New York AP reports Fred Smith also known as David Frederick Smith died in St. Luke's Hospital after a brief illness. A pioneer broadcaster, he helped develop Time magazine material into radio and later newsreel programs that won an Academy Award. Survived by widow Marjorie Garrigne a concert pianist daughter Marjorie Smith Mendel and five grandchildren.
CBS and NBC offer continuous gavel-to-gavel convention coverage on channels 2 and 4 with first session at 8:00 a.m. and second session at 4:20 p.m. ABC airs live highlights from 7 to p.m. LIARS CLUB at 7:30 p.m. on channel 5. KTLA adds game show return on weekdays. Gene Roddenberry hosts Trek Revisited at 8 p.m. on channel 5 with two favorite episodes. The Kremlin Letter airs 8:30 p.m. on channel 7 featuring Richard Boone Max von Sydow Bibi Andersson Orson Wales and Barbara Parkins.
A dense TV schedule fragment lists channels ENBC, KTLA, KABC, KH with paid ads and color notes. It covers morning to midnight blocks, noting a Republican Convention, various programs, movies, sports, and talk shows, with a closing plug for Independent Press-Telegram Classifieds.
Andre Previn, new music director of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, will stage eight music specials with the orchestra on Public Broadcasting Service next year. The Alcoa Foundation grant underwrites the series, produced by WQED Pittsburgh and scheduled for Sunday evenings beginning early in 1877.
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