British snub over Adams Chronicles sale to BBC
AP reports WNET executive Robert Kotlowitz says the BBC did not have an option to buy The Adams Chronicles and cites three reasons for not purchasing: BBC budget woes English unions concerns and a strict import quota. WNET notes the series has buyers in Mexico Ireland Norway Sweden Denmark Finland Greece Belgium and Germany and is being offered to British commercial TV.
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British Broadcasting Corp
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Robert Kotlowitz
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Variety
Showbiz Bible
BBC
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Kotlowitz
Andrew Mellon Foundation
Atlantic Richfield Co
National Endowment For the Humanities
America
Mexico
Ireland
Norway
Sweden
Denmark
Finland
Greece
Belgium
Germany
Britain
Born again Skeeter Davis says faith reshapes career
Nashville singer Skeeter Davis discusses spiritual rebirth after 1973 Opry suspension for protesting arrests. She credits renewed faith, renewed priorities, and renewed doors opening, while noting efforts to avoid liquor venues and a gospel music revival. Davis, 44, joined the Opry in 1959 and now records with Pete Drake. new single I Love Us planned.
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Grand Ole Opry
Blond Singer
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Opry
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Davis
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Pete Drake
Book on Washington fringe benefits hits stands this week
Elizabeth Ray's The Washington Fringe Benefit depicts a woman's rise through Washington politics with alleged real names and vivid sexual coercion. Dell's 172 page novel prints 600000 copies and follows a narrator connected to figures like Sen Otis Battle and Rep Billy Bob Blank amid scandals and power.
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Elizabeth Ray
The
Washington Star
Wayne Hays
Ohio
Miss Ray
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the Star
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Otis Battle
Rep
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Brinkley returns as co anchor of NBC Nightly News
NBC Nightly News shuffles anchors with David Brinkley resuming co anchorman duties beside John Chancellor. Brinkley, 55, last shared the desk in 1970 after Chet Huntley retired, joining Chancellor for primetime specials before resuming regular duties in Burbank.
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NBC Nightly News
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John Chancellor
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Chancellor
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California
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