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i.www,lwwtiN,wwwwrv,tryKrttntttiw Reno Evening Gazette Wednesday, August 28, 198129 HlATfllS" BENO AREA KEYSTONE 1 ssm i CENTER Television monitor BARGAIN AAATINEES $2.50 to 6 P.AA SAT. SUN. TO P.M. WHIll SIATINO PIKMITS I In the Supreme Court, there ore only eight of them gainst oil of hec NBC news changes set numbers. It also looks like a few of NBC's biggest power brokers won't be along for that exciting ride.

This column has learned that Richard Salant, vice chairman of the National Broadcasting and his news division president, Bill Small, are In serious trouble and might not continue in their current Jobs much longer. Speculation has it that Salant, 67, the former longtime president of CBS News, will be leaving his NBC post to accept a professorship at Harvard. Although an outstanding news executive, Salant is disliked by many NBC staffers because of what they call his determination to put "a CBS imprint" on NBC News. Meanwhile, Small, another ex-CBS man, whom Salant brought over to NBC in 1979, also is said to be on shaky ground partly because he's on bad terms with incoming "Nightly News" anchor Brokaw and partly because NBC's "Nightly News" falls behind ABC's "World News Tonight" in the audience More speculation follows: Salant will quit his NBC post to accept the teaching assignment at Harvard. His NBC contract expires in about six months, but most observers expect him to leave the network before then, perhaps as soon as this fall.

If anybody succeeds Salant in his corporate vice chairman's role, it'll probably be Irwin Segelstein, a veteran broadcast executive, who currently holds the title of "president of NBC Television," a nebulous job. As for Small, he's an excellent journalist whose temper tantrums get excused because of his fine work. In his two years at NBC, Small hasn't racked up too many solid accomplishments, and there are many at NBC who would savor his ouster, especially in view of his role in the "CBS-ization" of NBC News. If Small does get dumped before his contract expires next August, there would be no clear-cut fron-trunner in the race to replace him. But this column has learned that one "dark horse" contender already under consideration is John Chancellor, the NBC news anchor, who soon will relinquish his "Nightly News" chair to Brokaw and Mudd.

The possible dumping of Salant and Small is a recent development. It comes in the wake of Fred Silverman's resignation and the takeover by Grant Tinker. Neither Salant nor Small began to feel much heat until July 30, when Tinker appointed Bob Mulholland as the No. 2 official of NBC. IHlsa A Raramoont Picture By GARY DEEB Dan Rather is attracting more news viewers than either of the other big networks, but the most intriguing behind-the-scenes events now seem to be occurring at NBC News.

With the announcement that Tom Brokaw and Roger Mudd will be the new co-anchors of "NBC Nightly News," it looks like the Peacock Network is ready to take a ferocious run at Rather's Nielsen COPYMXT MCMlXIXtS MHAMOUNI PCTUWS COWOAATKM fHQHTS RESRVEO I Nit 1MI. MON-FRI: 6:00. 1:00. 10.00 SAT I SUN: 2:00, 4:00, 4:00, 1:00, 10:00 OLD TOWN MALL 4001 SO. VIRGINIA ST.

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ABC had three of the week's five lowest-rated programs, including "Foul Play" in 62nd place, "Eight is Enough" 63rd and "Those Amazing Animals" 66th. "Lobo" on NBC was 64th, and an NBC movie, "Buck Rogers," 65th. Here are the week's 10 highest-rated programs: "The Jeffersons," with a rating of 23.5 representing 18.8 million homes, "Trapper John, M.D.," 22.4 or 17.9 million, "Circus of the Stars," 22.1 or 17.7 million, "Alice," 21.3 or 17 million, "M-A-S-H," 20.7 or 16.5 million, and "House Calls," 19.5 or 15.6 million, all CBS; "Diff'rent Strokes," 19.4 or 15 million, NBC; "Dukes of Hazzard," 18.7 or 14.9 million, CBS, and "Hart to Hart," 18.5 or 14.8 million, and "Too Close for Comfort," 18.4 or 14.7 million, both ABC. The next 10 shows: "Three's Company" and "Love Boat," both ABC; "Little House on the Prairie," NBC, and "Lou Grant," CBS, tie; "Irene," NBC; "60 Minutes," CBS; "Quincy, M.E.," NBC; "Dallas," CBS, and "Fantasy Island" and "Barney Miller," both ABC, NEW YORK (AP) With the start of the 1981-82 television season just a month away, CBS was solidly in command in the networks' ratings competition. CBS won the thee-way race for the 14th consecutive week, with the six top-raed programs and seven of the first 10, figures from the A.C.

Nielsen Co. showed. All were reruns. "The Jeffersons" finished the week ending Aug. 23 as the No.

1 show for the period, with "Trapper John, M.D." second and a "Circus of the Stars" special in third. The rating for "The Jeffersons" was 23.5. Nielsen says that means of the homes in the country with television, 23.5 percent saw at least part of the show. CBS' average rating for the week was 15.4 to 13 for runnerup ABC and 12.8 for NBC. The networks say that means in an average prime-time minute, 15.4 percent of the nation's TV-equipped homes were tuned to CBS.

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