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Show 2S The Salt Lake Tribune Sunday July 15, 1984 SPECIALISTS IN SCREEN ENCLOSED PATIOS AU. WEATHER PATIO ENCLOSURES CARPORTS STORM WINDOWS CUSTOM PATIO COVERS & WINDOW SIDING AWNINGS QUALITY PAYS PATIO 264-122- 2 10x20 SPECIAL 10 x20' 20 ?e?rze &zevc&r lb CD escort k- Magazine I TV Logs July 15-2- 1, I 1984 U r I ifrfreMari & When the gavel sounds at the opening session of the Democratic Convention on Monday at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, among those present will be Tom "i Brokaw anchoring NBCs coverage, Peter Jennings and David Brinkley sharing duties for ABC, and Dan Rather, who for the first time will spearhead CBS News coverage of a national convention. For more on the coverage of the Democratic sessions, which run through Thursday, see the story below. r ft Convention coverage NOTHING DOWN UP TO FIVE YEARS TO PAY No more network Taj Mahals . 5 (on approved credit) FREE ESTIMATES by Peter W. Kaplan i: New York Times Writer CABINS - See our new cabin models Open Daily IncludM: P walla Precut raftars 2x8 log aiding Insulation Roofing Insulated Wlndowa 8x20 Deck Exterior trim door Hardware Nails 4 Plane Interior Flniah Extra iS9995 20x28 WE WONT BE UNDERSOLD - WE GUARANTEE IT! GARAGE SALE 2-C- ar PRE-FA- B 24x24 KITS on your Completely lot1 includes concrete kit and tabor pad built 24x24 MODELS OPEN DAILY 2495 41 95 OTHER SIZES ARE AVAILABLE KIT INCLUDES: walls, with primed siding, trusses, plywood. 18x7" Martin steel door ($538 00 value), 3 It exterior door, windows, shingles. trim, hardware nails and plans1 NEW YORK At the 1948 Republican National Convention, which was not the first televised convention 1940 was the landmark year a very hot Edward R. Murrow sat with two colleagues, looked through the camera lens and said: It must be the heat. Here are three reporters. Weve been here 10 minutes and all weve said is that nothing much happened today, or, if it did, we dont know about it. In the next 36 years, it has sometimes seemed that, on television at least, those periods were what the national political conventions were made of, as they have sprawled and challenged television newsmen who have h?d as little to say about the nonaction as Murrow did. THIS YEAR, AT BOTH the Demo- cratic National Convention, this week, and at the Republican Convention, Aug. 20-2- 3, television will have, For years, only CBS and NBC went;-if not revenge, then relief. For the first time, none of the three major head to head. When ABC came of age networks will be broadcasting coverage of the events, but instead, will be giving them blocks schedules. from their prime-tim- e NBC and CBS are planning, for the first time, to go on the air as late as 9 on some nights; ABC, which tried the partial coverage of conventions in 1976 and then reneged in 1980 with l, will be starting at 8. Economically, this makes a great deal of sense from the networks point of view; what the consequences will be journalistically is another question. The conventions have always represented a point of pride for the television networks: It is the moment when they mobilize and exhibit their operations, show what they can do journalistically and technically in what they like to think of as a kind of Ben-Hchariot race of the news operations. gavel-to-gav- gavel-to-gave- el " as a news operation, in the late 70s, it entered the competition. This year its by Pe-tcoverage will be Jennings and David Brinkley. And ; there are two more formidable entries in the race: Ted Turners Cable News Network will be setting up a news presence at both San Francisco , and Dallas that is comparable tor, what the broadcast networks are con-- ' the public-aftributing. And fairs network on cable, will be the only operation offering full gavel-to-- v gavel presentation of the conclaves. , IN MY HEART OF hearts, said. Tom Brokaw, NBCs sole anchor forLl the conventions, personally Id pre-- f l, fer to go but its of) interest to me. As an editor you have ( to decide what to exclude and what to include. The audience has been diminish- ' er -i . gavel-to-gave- See Page S-- 6, Column 1 |