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Television In Review H. Primary Proved Cliffhangers can he dull At the movies NEW YORK (UPI) There were almost enough television network ployes in New Hampshire Tuesday night to have swung the vote in the Republican primary, and some of them had been there almost long enough to qualify for a ballot. From a television point of view, the time and labor, the expensive personnel and equipment, all ended up producing a giant yawn. The results in the Democratic primary, with Jimmy Carter, Morris Udall and Birch Bayh in one- two-three order, was predicted and therefore without excitement. On the Republican side, the contest remained too close for the networks to call by midnight, so all but night owls and the politically pious went to bed unsatisfied.

The trouble might lie in frustrated expectations. Back in 1952, when New primary primacy began, the state had its lake country as a summer attraction, the falling leaves in autumn, winter skiing and, as a harbinger of spring, the first preference primary of the presidential election year. By 1976, it had ballooned into an affair covered over a period of months by the three television networks and the LYCEUM Red Hook Cloud Thru Wednesday STARTS THURSDAY, MAR 4 '3 DAYS OF THE CONDOR" Admission $1.50 academy Polt, nukm 1U.14M BLACK BIRD'' THE LONG GOODBYE For pencil press. Last night NBC estimated it had about 140 persons working in New Hampshire, ABC had 125 and CBS 120. Among these, of course, were such top talent as Walter Cronkite, John Chancellor and Harry Reasoner, with a supporting coast of top broadcasters.

It took a combined staff of almost 400 people to let the nation know that immediately past midnight on the morning of Feb. 24, the 25 voters of Dixville Notch, N.H., cast their ballots Gerald Ford 11, Ronald Reagan 4 on the Republican side, with the 10 Democrats giving Jimmy Carter six votes, with one each to four other contenders. When it came to calling the statewide results, ABC called the Democratic contest for Carter at 7:50 p.m. Eastern time, on its radio network, even though all the polls close until 8. It do the same on television at that hour because network time doesn't begin until 8 p.m., with affiliates on local access until then.

ABC called Carter on television at 8:05 p.m., Eastern time. The call was made with only 11 per cent of the New Hampshire precincts reporting, but an ABC spokesman said 33 per cent of their key precincts were in at that time. CBS give the race to Carter until 8:40 p.m., with NBC coming in at 8:50 p.m. NBC had scheduled more primary news for its 8:57 nightly news and all three networks presented half- hour special reports at 11:30 p.m., but there were few interruptions of regularly scheduled programming not even the distraction of that ribbon of print the news departments sometimes thread along the bottom of the screen. Apparently the conventional wisdom was that the Democrats had just began thfatrf wvw ACffS Of Ftfi PARKING Ploying laf feature at 7:05 A 9:35 MatimSf JACK NICHOLSON INC ONI raw ouest IE CUCKC 3 ft NETT A Fintaty Film thru United Artiste to fight among themselves, anyway and the focus of interest lay with the Republicans, whose contest was too tight to predict.

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