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te : . € ‘4 Abbott Howard Hoffman conflict, some kind of energy, something can emerge that's different from the regular (unintelligible) talked about on television talk show. I also suggested that Sprio Agnew but Channel 13 isn't wise to offer equal time to Spiro Agnew to also interview television news broadcasters, Well, we called a number of broadcasters, Howard K. Smith, we even called Frank Reynolds, we called Walter, i Walter himself, And lo and behold everybody turned us down. ~ | But John Chancellor of NBC News accepted and Morley Schaffer of CBS News accepted. And then this weekend it hit the papers of I was gonna be host and they were gonna be the guests and the brass at the networks found out about it. And all of a sudden Morley Schaffer was overworked, overwrought, ae exhausted and he couldn't come and he's now on location in wo Spain, John Chancellor, John Chancellor wanted to come. Now. mt this is the anchor man of NBO News, He must make quite a : good salary probably three-four hundred grand 4 year and ye , he was prevented from coming on by the brass as NEC, the way in which networks manage the news, And I don't think after doing research and reading books and getting into the packground of these people that they would have failed too poorly, —_ that they would have had quite a good defense and I was 4 —- little disappointed about four days ago that they were gonna come off pretty well. And then lo and behold the networks by their action proved what the concept of the show could never have proved, that they decided that this show was not gonna ¢ Now what was strange is that we were gonna talk about —— go on ani they were gonna do everything they could to sabotage 2 it. ; . So of course what's interesting is that if they - do this on public television, what do they do in their own back yard? And to discuss this we have with us in the studio i Bill-Greeky, telvision critic ,, of Wariety and we have in Washington Nicholas~ ohnson, the FCC Commissioner, whose currently involved in\congressionad hearings dealing with "Pree Time." We'll be talking to Nicholas over the remote control systen. First I want to ask Bill a question, Hi Bill, welcome to "Free Time.“ Does this....e. | ee A re ee ge nae oe