NEWS & NOTES : `GOOD MORNING AMERICA' GETS NBC'S VARGAS IN ANCHOR SPOT.Byline: Daily News Wire Services NBC's Elizabeth Vargas will join 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. next week as news anchor for ``Good Morning America Good Morning America is a weekday morning news show that is broadcast on the ABC television network. The show was adapted from The Morning Exchange, a morning show created by and airing on the ABC affiliate in Cleveland, Ohio, and was launched nationally as .'' Vargas, 33, had been an NBC NBC in full National Broadcasting Co. Major U.S. commercial broadcasting company. It was formed in 1926 by RCA Corp., General Electric Co. (GE), and Westinghouse and was the first U.S. company to operate a broadcast network. correspondent since 1993, mostly with ``Dateline.'' In addition, she was a backup anchor for ``Today'' and was in line to take over the weekend ``Today'' slot. Vargas will replace ``GMA'' news reader Morton Dean later this month, ABC says. Dean, 60, will become a New York-based national correspondent for Peter Jennings' ``World News Tonight'' and ``GMA GMA glycol methacrylate. .'' VCR VCR: see videocassette recorder. VCR in full videocassette recorder Electromechanical device that records, stores on a videotape cassette, and plays back on a TV set recorded images and sound. alert: Legendary newsman Walter Cronkite will reflect on his life and times in ``Cronkite Remembers,'' a CBS special at 8 p.m. May 23. The two-hour broadcast - culled from 25 hours of interviews conducted in Uncle Walter's living room - also features never-before-broadcast home movies taken by Cronkite's family, as well as rare clips from CBS News' library and other archives. ``Cronkite Remembers'' will include the former CBS anchor's coverage of virtually every major event of the last half of the 20th century: World War II, the Nuremberg trials, the Korean War, the civil rights struggle, President Kennedy's assassination, the Vietnam War, the space program and Watergate. |
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