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- <text id=89TT0408>
- <title>
- Feb. 13, 1989: Prime-Time Power Switch
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
- Feb. 13, 1989 James Baker:The Velvet Hammer
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- PEOPLE, Page 70
- Prime-Time Power Switch
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- <p> Would she or wouldn't she? After much waffling, 60 Minutes'
- Diane Sawyer finally signed off as a CBS News correspondent and
- segued to rival ABC last week. She was apparently upset, among
- other things, at not getting her own interview-style news
- program. ABC wooed and won her by promising just that, a new
- prime-time show she will co-anchor with Sam Donaldson. Says
- Donaldson of the prospective partnership: "The only way it will
- work is if the co-anchors are together in word, deed and
- spirit, like a marriage -- and not a shotgun marriage either."
- Sawyer will receive a salary of $1.5 million at ABC, up from
- $1.2 million. But even that will not make her ABC's
- highest-paid newswoman. That honor still belongs to 20/20's
- Barbara Walters.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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