TV & VIDEO - May 20, 1988

Starting July 5, NBC News will go prime time for six one-hour news specials on Tuesday nights at 10 p.m. PDT, with five of the broadcasts anchored by Connie Chung, network sources said Thursday. The sixth, anchored by John Palmer, is a documentary on pensions, the final program for NBC produced by Reuven Frank, who has twice headed NBC News. When he signs off at NBC, he’ll be a senior Gannett Fellow at Columbia University. NBC’s summer string of Tuesday news specials will be preempted Aug. 9 for baseball, and on July 19 and Aug. 16 for coverage of the political conventions. Still, it marks the network’s first weekly prime-time news since “1986.”