European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 6, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse Leno a moves Sullivan stays nil stands tall a highlight of the late shift Bill Quot Carters upcoming Book on the Over covered Battle Over who m a would succeed Johnny Carson As Leader in late night to is the revelation that at one Point Jay Leno stole into an Abc office to eavesdrop on a a coastal conversation among network executives As they continued to debate the merits of Dave Letterman and Jay even after Leno had been chosen to succeed Carson. Monday night Leno made his first Public response to publication of the episode telling cab cd a Tom Snyder a a it a wonderful. I was having the time of my life. It was the funniest thing. Its like being Huck finn at your own Quot when i was a kid and i really wanted to know what people thought of my act a Leno told Snyder Quot i d come off the stage then id run into the menus room close the stall and put my feet up on the John. Then Guys would come in and say a what Vidya think of that last Guy he a pretty Good a and then you a realty hear what they liked about coasting during the May rating Zzz sweeps Letterman and Leno will Trade coasts for a week. Tonight twin originate from the saturday night live studios at 30 Rockefeller Plaza. It will Mark the first new York appearance of the show since Johnny Carson took it West in 1972. Leno broadcast from Boston in May while some of the cast of cheers got smashed following the final broadcast of the series. Letterman will broadcast from a studio adjacent to television City in la. Cuts from Kathleen no Quot done to get excited a Kathleen Sullivan is not going to join pm time live As a correspondent she a making too much Money from those weight watchers commercials. But we have Learned that she will be the subject of a meaty Sylvia Chase profile which will Likely air on this weeks show. Why is this such big news its not but we find it fascinating that the world basically forgot about the former new woman after she left lbs news a couple of years ago and now she a getting plenty of attention. A source says Chase will make the piece sort of a Paddy Chayefsky esque parable talented to new woman gains weight loses Job. Chase did no to return a Call. Super show last sundays super bowl already in the record books for producing the longest pout by a running Back in an nil championship game was also the most watched to program in history according to Abc researchers. The program earned a 45.4 National Nielsen rating and a 66 percent audience share Between 6 22 and 9 41, adding up said Abc to 134,844,000 viewers. Abc said its Dallas Buffalo super bowl last january had been the previous record Holder with an estimated 133,400,000 viewers. The All time highest rating for a super bowl was the 49.1-73 for the 49ers-Bengais in 1982. Meanwhile Thurman Thomas of the Buffalo Bills set a pout Mark of two full quarters in sundays game. Compiled by veme Gay of nowadays and John Carmody of the Washington Post. Lbs lbs news sunday mornings Charlies Harriet Winslow the Washington Post a Hen Charles Kuralt began anchoring lbs news sunday morning on Jan. 28, 1979, Jimmy Carter was in the White House inflation was raging and Many of his most Loyal viewers were still in grammar school. Today at 3 15 . Get on an tothe lbs show Marks its 15th anniversary. With its trademark solar graphics and easy Pace sunday morning has built up a devoted following of All Ages who Wake up to features on music the arts news sports weather and a Quot postcard from each week ends with a scene from nature a migrating Birds alaskan whales roaming wolves a reminding viewers that the Best part of the United states May be the scenes we rarely see. A i know in television terms we done to have an awful lot of viewers but those we do have seem to be Loyal. They look Forward to it a said Kuralt. With the show earning 25 emmy nominations and eight wins networks should bottle the chemistry that makes sunday morning so watchable. Kuralt who will turn 60 in september offered some thoughts Quot part of it of course is the length. An hour and a half is a Lovely amount of time to and the time of Day Quot i picture them with a cup of Coffee and the sunday paper in their laps and watching sunday morning that Way. It is a leisurely time of morning for a lot of people and i think they Are Able to sit still for our somewhat leisurely program at that time on sunday the shows Success is More about its variety of news and feature stories especially on artists and musicians that attract viewers who Span generations and backgrounds. A a very rarely on television do you see a Good 10 or 12-minute Story about Leonard Bernstein or Pavarotti or leontyne Price a or so Many of the artists and musicians who Are profiled on the show. Quot it fills a Little Blank spot in television i and its the Art and music features that Quot stick in your mind a he added. The shows features can have a haunting effect lingering in ones memory for Days. Credit is due to past and current producers Missie Rennie is currently in charge and the diverse contributors and their array of topics pianist and composer Billy Taylor on jazz Eugenia Zukerman classical music author and critic John Leonard Telvi Sion and films no Braska Folklorist Roger Welsch humorist Bill Geist and recent additions Tim Sample a Maine humorist arid reporter Martha Tichner. A. / a a a a a. North Carolina born Kuralt started at lbs in 1957 and has reported from around the Globe. But viewers May rom pm Ber him Best for his on the Road features which began in 1967 when he and a camera Crew set out to Sec America in an old motor Home. The eloquent Kuralt now is zipping Back and Forth to Norway in preparation for the olympics. He has already made about 15 stories. Quot they re shot but they re not written or edited or anything a he said. Kuralt won a 1992 emmy one of 11 for sports reporting on the Winter games in Albertville France. Today a anniversary show appropriately is scheduled to have Jimmy Carter reflecting on the changes America since he held office. Also Kuralt plans to visit Robert Redford at his Sundance ranch in Utah to discuss Redford a interest in the environment the arts and Indian artefacts. Other features will be on Jane Alexander new chairman of the National endowment for the arts and flautist contributor Eugenia Zukerman will play with violinist Nadja Salemo Sonnenberg and pianist Vladimir Felts an. Sunday morning also tackles hard news such As the recent peace Accord Between Israel and the Plo. Each week Kuralt chats with a lbs correspondent about a timely topic and reporters Terence Smith and David Culhane present a cover Story. Kuralt reflected on other highlights of the past 15 years of sundays. Quot the stories i remember arc almost All ones that were done by others. For example and because they came As news to me i remember one that Eugenia Zukerman did about Yoyo a. I had never heard of Yoyo a and she did a Lovely Story. It began wonderfully with a Guy racing with a cello Down an Airport corridor frantically. And we watched this for a Little while and she said a done to worry he a going to make it a and of course he a made it As a famous musician. Quot the same thing is True of Billy Taylor a Story about Winton Marsalis and the Marsalis family of new Orleans. I had never heard of them or of Winton and Here i got introduced to them on this sunday morning some of the stories Kuralt has enjoyed producing were on British sculptor Henri Moore the Wyeth family of painters in Pennsylvania and musician Vladimir Horowitz a return to Russia in 1986. A that was a moving experience a he said. Quot for 61 years he had never been Back to the country in which he was bom and Here he came Back in Triumph in his 80s to play one More time in the old conservatory of music where he studied once upon a Kuralt recalled an especially powerful piece orchestrated by founding producer Shad Northshield in the shows first year the Story Kuralt said was done almost without words. Quot what had happened was that lord Mountbatten was killed by Ira terrorists and the Day of his great funeral in Westminster Abbey they also buried a Catholic kid who had been killed by protestant terrorists in Northern Ireland. He was buried on a windswept Bleak Hillside with a handful of mourners. And Shad just edited Back and Forth Between the two funerals and of course some of the same words were said. A there was no Way anyone could watch that without a tear in his eyes. It was an unforgettable piece of work and except for the introduction nobody needed to say anything. It spoke volumes about the stupidity of sectarian 6. 1994 sunday Page 11
