ABC, OTHER NETWORKS OFFER CANDIDATES FREE TIME.Byline: The New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Times ABC ABC in full American Broadcasting Co. Major U.S. television network. It began when the expanding national radio network NBC split into the separate Red and Blue networks in 1928. joined its network brethren Wednesday in offering free television time to the major presidential candidates, announcing that it would invite them to appear on a live one-hour special in prime time, during the last week before the election. The candidates would discuss issues without interruption from journalists or ``any third party,'' ABC said. Now all four major broadcast networks - plus PBS PBS in full Public Broadcasting Service Private, nonprofit U.S. corporation of public television stations. PBS provides its member stations, which are supported by public funds and private contributions rather than by commercials, with educational, cultural, , the Cable News Network and a collection of cable operators - have agreed to provide some measure of unmediated Adj. 1. unmediated - having no intervening persons, agents, conditions; "in direct sunlight"; "in direct contact with the voters"; "direct exposure to the disease"; "a direct link"; "the direct cause of the accident"; "direct vote" direct television time to the candidates this fall, each in a different format. Some are promising the access in prime time, from 8 to 11 p.m.; some are not. Some say it will be presented in a news program; some do not. ``It's important to do this not just for the gesture, but to improve the quality of information getting out to viewers as they make decisions,'' David Westin David Westin is currently president of ABC News (since March 6 1997). He is responsible for all aspects of ABC News’ broadcasts, including World News Tonight, Nightline, Good Morning America, 20/20, Primetime, , president of ABC, said Wednesday by telephone from Los Angeles. ``It's constructive to have a number of different approaches among the networks, so we can see what will work or not work.'' Rupert Murdoch, chairman of News Corp., which owns the Fox television network, started this parade with a speech at the National Press Club in February. He said Fox would provide one prime-time hour to the major candidates, without interviewers, on the eve On the Eve (Накануне in Russian) is the third novel by famous Russian writer Ivan Turgenev, best known for his short stories and the novel Fathers and Sons. of the election. In addition, he said, the network would broadcast 10 one-minute position statements from each candidate at regular intervals in prime time in the month before the election. |
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