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2000 Spring Television Quarterly JOURNAL OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF TELEVISION ARTS AND SCIENCES LINCOLN CITY LIBRARIES "III III II III 1 III 3 3045 01854 1744 hub llerbee e Newswoman Who Fired e- Networks BY ARTHUR UNGER Public Television nd the Camel's Nose Y BERNARD S. REDMONT V's Distorted and 'ssing Images f Women and e Elderly Y BERT R. BRILLER EVISION BULK RATE Ii lkih.hiid1II1 111 I.III, I,II. III II 1II.I,II U.S. POSTAGE RTERLY xxAUTO.xxx.xxxxxxxxxMIXEO HOC 430 CITY' PAID W. 57TH ST. LINCOLN LIBRARIES REFRENCE DEPT. COLUMBUS, OH YO3K 136 S 14TH ST LINCOLN NE 68508 -1801 PERMIT NO. 2443 . 10019 www.americanradiohistory.com Hubbard Broadcasting'.0 bbarc Proudly d casti nc The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences P -FM KS KSTP -AM KSTP- V USSB CONUS F&F Productions Inc. Diamond P Sports All News Channel WD1O -TV WIRT -TV KSAX -TV KRWF -TV KOB-TV KOBR-TV KOBFTV WNYT TV WNEC -TV www.americanradiohistory.com Muchas gracias, muchas gracias. As the first Spanish -language television network to be honored with two national Emmy Awards, we thought some words of thanks were in order. "Gracias" to our talented Noticiero Univision team of anchors, reporters, and producers for their award -winning coverage of last summer's devastating Hurricane Mitch. " Gracias" to the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences for recognizing not just the increasing importance, but the worldclass quality of Spanish- language newscasting in this country. www.americanradiohistory.com e aétte°ate o new ColorStream Pro DVD with Progressive Scan & eue/7,4n ckieectle, Jowni dedyne4e, echto4e, CMdiStAWitt eChjA94e, ca4ne4eaman, aJst'sttan,tt , vi G(.SKIT,G1tct4W, W ¡ re0/ ud10, u1agta eve/7me Jee defix ukO4 de Way aif,W. c'd athaatrin /zat/iecaeoe (17,au datule evew aulaJeaam £iQni uáyeax. Xx ud to, ac>:ie/ve Jach a/eat, we t,ia/nZ y,au. Model Number: SD9100 ColorStream Pro Progressive Scan DTS Compatible Digital Output TOSHIBA Built in Dolby Digital Surround Sound Spatializer N -2 -2 Virtual Surround Sound toshiba.com 24 bit/961(Rz Sampling Rate www.americanradiohistory.com EDITORIAL BOARD Editor and Chairman T FREDERICK A. JACOBI Members GEORGE BACK QUARTERLY ROYAL E. BLAKEMAN BERT BRILLER VOLUME XXXI NUMBER 1 SPRING 200° JOHN CANNON THE NATIONAL ACAULh:I) of ILEL).1 1LE'v AH1, A.0 a 1. ILNCES SCHUYLER G. CHAPIN THE JOURNAL OF MICHAEL M. EPSTEIN Ellerbee: The Newswoman Who Fired the Networks, NELSA GIDNEY 4 Linda Unger MELVIN A. GOLDBERG by Arthur MARY KNOWLES 19 Teletubby Trouble: How Justified Were Rev. Falwell's Attacks? HERMAN W. LAND by Heather Hendershot LAWRENCE LAURENT HOWARD A. MYRICK 2 7 Public Television and the Camel's Nose, by Bernard S. Redmont JOHN PAVLIK Medved RAQUEL ORTIZ 3 3 Point: NAACP Attacks the Wrong TV Target, hyMichael MARLENE SANDERS Counterpoint: Culturally Diverse TV Would be Better TV, QUENTIN SHAFFER 3 7 by Christopher P. Campbell RON SIMON MARY ANN WATSON 41 "Go Westinghouse, Young Man!" Michael M. Epstein interviews Joel (2taseman Special Correspondent ARTHUR UNGER Si Is Holdup One or Two Words? Hair -raising 1960's experiences Graphics Designer by Phil Baker ROBERT MANSFIELD Now There Are Seven. by Douglas Gomery Business Manager 63 Once There Were Three, TRUDY WILSON 69 TV's Distorted and Missing Images of Women and the Elderly, by Bert R. Briller Televtalon Quarterly HBO Movies: me Cable Giant as the "Auteur "byA!Auster ISSN: 0040.2796 75 Television Quarterly is published quarterly by the National Academy of Television Ans 8 5 Remembering Edgar Bergen, by Gordon Cooler and Sciences. I 1 l West S7th Street. New York. New York. 100191212) 5868424. A in Writing, Members of the National Academy of 91 Network Expense Accounts: Course Creative Television Ans and Sciences receive by Mort Hochstein TELEVISION QUARTERLY as part of membership services. Inquiry regarding membership should be directed to the office 9 S REVIEW AND COMMENT of The National Academy of Television Ans War, and Sciences. BUSINESS ADVERTISING, Madness in the Morning: Life and Death in TV's Early Morning Rating OLIVES: Television Quarterly, I 1 1 West It Leads: An Anatomy of Television News, 57th Street. New York. NY 10019. by Richard Hack; If It Bleeds, Quarterly. Media, EDIT(IRIAI. t 0E}10E: Television by Matthew R.Kerbel; and Warp Speed: America in the Age of Mixed same lite subscription rates for addrvs. Lawrence Laurent non -members. libraries and others is by Bill Kovach and Tom Rosenstiel. Reviewed by 530.00 a year and 56.00 a copy in the I'll Be Right Back: Memories of TV's Greatest Talk Show, by Mike Douglas United States: S 15.00 a year and S6.00 a M. 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Cover photo by Gordon Munro 3 TELEVISION QUARTERLY www.americanradiohistory.com Linda Ellerbee The Newswoman Who Fired the Networks TVQ'sSpecial Correspondent chats with this irreverent woman who defeated cancer, alcoholism and the suffocating influences of network newsrooms to head up her own production company and anchor the acclaimed NickNews on Nickelodeon. By Arthur Unger inda Ellerbee has become the Interviewed in her office on Morton poster -girl for TV's independent Street in Greenwich Village, she sports a newswomen. As a matter of fact, black T -shirt and makes no attempt to for all newspersons who are will- create a false impression. "You remember , i ing to fight for their integrity. Arthur," she says, gesturing toward her flat She has managed to overcome alco- chest, "I used to have large breasts!" holism a and double mastectomy as well I remember. But I also remember this as a fierce independence which seldom fit effervescent personality who pioneered in the network mold.. Now, still brilliant at off beat network news ventures on all the age 55, she is handsomer than ever, slim, major networks: NBC News Overnight, Our happily mated /partnered with Rolfe World, Summer Sunday... a newswoman Tessem, and ready to take on all comers- who has won CableAce awards as well as network, cable, internet...or destiny. Emmys and Peabodys. Now, with co -exec- 4 TELEVISION QUARTERLY www.americanradiohistory.com i TELEVISION QUARTERLY www.americanradiohistory.com utive producer Tessem, she heads up recently watched the hour that Lifetime did Lucky Duck Productions, which does Nick on my life and somebody said: "Well, what News as well as Intimate Portraits for Life- did you think of it ?" And I said: "Well, first time channel,specials for HBO, PBS and of all, it sort of feels like watching your almost everybody else, including Ms. obituary while you're still alive. And Smith Goes to Washington and The MTV secondly, it's like seeing every bad hair day Interview. In the works now is a 12 -part of your life on national TV. And third, I'm series on the women's movement with not really that nice as they make me out." Whoopie Goldberg and Diane Keaton. Ellerbee doesn't hesitate to talk about UNGER: Rubenstein said: "What more her bouts with alcoholism and breast could you ask for in a pal ?" I want to ask: cancer (in fact, she lectures about them all "What more could you ask for in a news - over the country in order to alert people to woman?" the problems) but she refuses to flaunt ELLERBEE: I don't know what I would them as her ultimate badge of acceptance. ask for. But I certainly know the one thing She is proud of the success of her company. that the networks I worked for all those Almost as proud as she is of her two chil- years would say: "Obedience." I was never dren who have "turned out so well." very good at that. It always struck me as Her office is decorated with many odd that, particularly in the case of women photos...but the one she focuses on point- (and I guess I was part of that first wave of edly is of her patron saint, Edward R. women in network news), that they hired Murrow. "He did a coffee commercial," she us to do a job that involved going out and says with a smile (she has been vilified for not taking no for answer. And then they doing a Maxwell House commercial in the wanted us to come back in the building and past.) Also on a shelf are the Emmys and be obedient little sweetie pies. Peabodys, sharing a place of honor with I looked very hard at that situation and photos of her (now adult) kids, whom she thought: "This can go one of two ways. considers her major accomplishment. Either it'll make me crazy or I'll make them crazy, and I know which way I'm going to *V* choose here." But I really never understood What follows is my conversation with the notion of why they would think that all Linda Ellerbee.
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