Weekend TV : Programming Will Focus on Summit, Related Events in Moscow
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President Reagan’s arrival in Moscow early Sunday morning will trigger a week of extensive television coverage of the five-day superpower summit from the Soviet Union.
Cable News Network will be on the scene Sunday at 3 a.m. (Los Angeles time) with live coverage of the President’s plane touching down in Moscow and the official welcoming ceremony at the Kremlin. ABC News will begin its coverage at 4:30 a.m., while NBC joins in at 5:30 a.m.
The CBS and NBC Sunday morning news-magazine shows both will broadcast from the Soviet Union to examine the summit and life in the U.S.S.R. Charles Kuralt and “Sunday Morning” (8 a.m., Channels 2 and 8) will look at America through the eyes of the chief Washington correspondent for the Soviet television agency. The program will also view culture in Leningrad with visits to the Hermitage Museum, the Leningrad Symphony Orchestra and ballet classes that dance to the music of Michael Jackson. Other segments will deal with Hungary and its role as a testing ground for glasnost, and with the Soviet fascination with American jazz.
NBC’s “Sunday Today’s” summit edition will look at Raisa Gorbachev’s impact on Soviet women, report on opinions and attitudes of Soviet youth, talk with an American expatriate living in the Soviet Union and interview legendary ballerina Maya Plisetskaya, 7 a.m. on Channel 36, 7:30 a.m. on Channels 4 and 39.
Next week, Dan Rather (CBS), Tom Brokaw (NBC) and Peter Jennings (ABC) will anchor their evening newscasts from Moscow. In addition, CNN and all three network morning news shows will offer special reports throughout the week on the fourth and final Reagan-Gorbachev summit.
For a different point of view on the events in Moscow, the Discovery Channel (cable) will broadcast the Soviet evening news program “Vremya,” translated into English, Monday through Thursday at 6 p.m. And “Nightline” on Monday (11:30 p.m. on ABC) will hook up with the live Soviet morning news program “120 Minutes” for a video exchange between the two programs.
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