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- PEOPLE, Page 70Prime-Time Power Switch
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- 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.