LONGTIME CBS NEWS PRODUCER MOVING TO NBC

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DATE: WEDNESDAY, April 14, 1993                   TAG: 9304130190
SECTION: EXTRA                    PAGE: 2   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: By JANE HALL LOS ANGELES TIMES
DATELINE: NEW YORK                                LENGTH: Short
LONGTIME CBS NEWS PRODUCER MOVING TO NBC
Andrew Lack, a longtime CBS News producer, has been named the new president of NBC News, ending the embattled network's search for an executive to rebuild its news division's image following the highly publicized staging of a car-crash on "Dateline NBC."
Although Lack has been an award-winning documentary producer for "CBS Reports," he is known primarily as the creator and executive producer of the CBS newsmagazines "Face to Face with Connie Chung" and "West 57th." He is currently the executive producer of the CBS newsmagazine "Street Stories" and has produced an upcoming two-hour documentary about World War II anchored by retired Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf.
Lack's appointment last week by NBC President Robert Wright was seen by many NBC News insiders as a sign of a renewed emphasis at NBC on creating prime-time newsmagazines and other money-making news programming.
"NBC executives told me that one reason they were interested in me for the job was because of my background in creating news programming," Lack, 45, said in an interview. "A big part of the job will be to develop more broadcasts from the news division in prime-time, daytime and even other areas."

by Bhavesh Jinadra by CNB