TV & VIDEO - Nov. 24, 1989

No More Network News?The 1990s could bring about the end of network news as we know it, says Reuven Frank, the former president of NBC News. In a Playboy magazine compilation of prognostications about the next decade, Frank said, “If you want my prediction about the network news in the next 10 years, it would have to be that I’m not sure there’s going to be any, at least not in the sense of a regular network news presentation on a daily basis. Network news today has too little to offer that is not available elsewhere. More and more, the networks will specialize in interviews instead of straight news. I would guess that very early in the ‘90s at least one network will drop straight news presentations.”