NBC Nightly News - 1993-05-21
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[0:00] or with its 100%
[0:01] >> Lobby hired as Dallas cops
[0:03] and medical malpractice a fresh idea for
[0:05] getting control of a runaway problem.
[0:08] This is NBC nightly news with Tom
[0:10] Brokaw.
[0:13] Good evening. Network television has it
[0:15] gone over the edge with violence
[0:17] especially during critical rating
[0:18] periods. Many viewers and now some key
[0:21] members of Congress say yes. And today
[0:23] they called senior officials from the
[0:25] three major networks to explain
[0:26] themselves.
[0:28] This This was not an easy assignment for
[0:30] the executives. NBC's Robert Hager
[0:32] begins our coverage tonight in
[0:34] Washington.
[0:35] Called before a Senate subcommittee,
[0:37] network executives claim to be reducing
[0:39] violence. NBC's Warren Littlefield,
[0:41] CBS's Howard Stringer, and ABC Cap
[0:44] Cities Thomas Murphy said the networks
[0:45] had recently set their own new
[0:47] standards. But then the subcommittee
[0:49] played excerpts from the current ratings
[0:51] period called May sweeps which determine
[0:54] advertising prices for the next 6
[0:55] months.
[0:56] ABC
[1:01] CBS
[1:06] NBC
[1:09] Tim Daly as David Koresh
[1:13] Senators were angry. TV industry ought
[1:15] to recognize one thing and never forget
[1:17] it.
[1:18] They don't own the airwaves. They just
[1:21] have franchises.
[1:23] And what Congress giveth Congress can
[1:25] take away. Some suggested networks ought
[1:27] to rate programs V for violent. And
[1:30] manufacturers ought to wire sets so
[1:31] parents could block such programs. And
[1:33] next year Are we going to get a repeat
[1:35] of May
[1:37] in the future as
[1:39] murder month?
[1:40] But I would certainly hope that by next
[1:42] May that we would have less violence in
[1:44] our May sweeps. Doing better is very
[1:46] importa