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Brokaw stepping back
NEW YORK — Tom Brokaw is leaving the anchor chair but not NBC. He signed a 10-year contract yesterday to remain at the network, largely to produce and narrate documentaries.
The Associated Press
Brokaw, 64, is stepping down as anchor of NBC's Nightly News on Dec. 1, and will be replaced in that role by Brian Williams.
"To a lot of people that meant I was going to sit around in an old anchorman's home with a lap robe and a drool cup." Brokaw told The Associated Press. "But I never intended to stop working."
He's been an NBC employee since 1966, starting as a reporter at the network's Los Angeles affiliate. Brokaw has been sole anchor of Nightly News since 1983 and NBC's main anchor on major news events.
Brokaw will be the first of the broadcast networks' Big Three with Peter Jennings of ABC and Dan Rather of CBS — to leave that role. All three have been in place for more than two decades.
he already regularly produces documentaries, and said he has
"I wrote four books in four years, doing my day job,and produced two or three documentaries a year."
Tom Brokaw
Anchor for NBC's Nightly News
four in the works now: on health care, politics, D-Day and a hiker who lost his arm.
NBC's merger with Universal completed yesterday, gives Brokaw more outlets. The network already owns CNBC MSNBC and Bravo, and will add networks like USA and Trio to its stable.
The author of The Greatest Generation, about the people who fought World War II, Brokaw plans to continue his writing career. He wouldn't talk about future book projects.
"I wrote four books in four years, doing my day job, and produced two or three documentaries a year," he said. "I just don't want to do that again."
him more personal flexibility if, for instance, he wants to teach at a college for a month or so.
He'll also be an analyst on major breaking news events, the network said.
Brokaw said the first thing he's planning after Dec. 1 is to skip town, in part to give Williamstime to establish himself. An avid hiker, Brokaw is taking a trip to the South American region of Patagonia.
The South Dakota native has a second home in Montana, equipped with a soundproof room where he can record voiceovers for his documentaries.
NBC News has a tradition of locking up its big names to longterm contracts; Meet the Press host Tim Russert, for example, is signed through the 2012 election.
By signing a deal that keeps him at NBC through 2014, he would not be able to run for office on a national ticket until, say, 2016. Brokaw had been mentioned as a potential vice presidential candidate, talk that bemused him.
"I'm running for cover, not for office," he said.
U.S. imports Korean show
The Associated Press
CHICAGO — J.P. Paulus is Dutch-Indonesian, and had no exposure to Asian culture while growing up. So how did he become a fan and promoter of Korean television drama?
The reason:a devastating courtesan and concubine named Chang Nok Soo.
while attending Northwestern University nearly a decade ago, Paulus got hooked on the legendary beauty's story.
When Chang Nok Soo aired in 1995, it was the year's top-ranked dramatic show in South Korea. But even with English subtitles, the chronicle of medieval court intrigue in Korea was hardly noticed in the United States.
Now he's part of a small but growing U.S. fan base for South Korean serial TV dramas, which are so popular in their native country that the military recently sent several series to Iraq to preserve the morale of Korean troops stationed there.
Paulus, now 31 and the financial officer of Chicago's Uptown Baptist Church, was among the few. (He said he began watching Chang Nok Soo because he was curious about the culture of Korean-born friends he met in a campus Christian group.)
Korean dramas also reach hundreds of millions of daily viewers in China, Japan, Taiwan, Thailand, the Philippines and Malaysia. The Seoul government estimates that 200,000 Asian tourists visited South Korea last year to see the studios and locations where the shows were shot.
Most fans say they came upon the programs while flipping channels.
U. S. audiences for Korean television drama are small, but vocal and devoted.
Bo Brown, a legal secretary from suburban Chicago, didn't even know what language the actors were speaking when she happened across a family drama on WOCH, but the scene's emotional intensity drew her in.
She's now an addict and vastly prefers the shows to American soaps.
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