Roanoke Times
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DATE: FRIDAY, January 31, 1992 TAG: 9201310391
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Public broadcasting and Bill Moyers were big winners Thursday as the 50th annual Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University broadcast journalism awards were Moyers announced in New York City.Columbia said Moyers, "known for his investigative documentaries, interpretive essays and conversations with leading thinkers," had won the Gold Baton, the highest honor, for his 20 years of work, most of it for the Public Broadcasting Service. He "is a unique voice, still seeking new frontiers in television, daring to assume that viewing audiences are willing to think and learn," Columbia President Michael I. Sovern said.
One of Moyers' programs last season, "Frontline: High Crimes and Misdemeanors," about the Iran-Contra scandal, won a Silver Baton for broadcast excellence.
Angela Lansbury will return to "Murder, She Wrote" - and become the show's executive producer - when it begins its ninth season next fall.
CBS, which had said it was preparing a pilot for a new show for Lansbury, announced that she has decided to stick with "Murder, She Wrote."
An Omaha man's reluctance to sell the house he has lived in for 66 years threatens to delay for years construction of the proposed Gerald R. Ford Conservation Center, the Nebraska State Historical Society says.
The society has acquired four of five lots needed to build the center near the Ford Birthsite and Gardens in Omaha. But Edward Peterson, 72, who lives on the fifth lot, has declined to sell. The retired mailman said he doesn't want to move and couldn't find a comparable home for the $44,000 he has been offered.
Vince Gill was chosen a finalist Thursday for seven TNN-Music City News country awards. Million-selling singer Garth Brooks was voted a finalist for five.
Gill and Brooks were nominated for entertainer of the year along with Alan Jackson, Virginian Ricky Van Shelton and George Strait.
Finalists for female vocalist of the year were Patty Loveless, Reba McEntire, Lorrie Morgan, Tanya Tucker and newcomer Trisha Yearwood.