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The non-commercial Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) aired the videotaped version of each day's Watergate hearing testimony during the evening. Many PBS station managers who were initially reluctant to carry such programming found that as a result of the carriage, station ratings as well as financial contributions increased.
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Ford is prominently profiled in the program during the dark days of Watergate and the politically turbulent 1970s. The film ... profiles Betty Ford and the role she played as one of the most influential first ladies since Eleanor Roosevelt.
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Television cameras covered the Watergate hearings gavel-to-gavel, from day one until 7 August. 319 hours of television were amassed, a record covering a single event. All three commercial television networks then in existence--NBC, CBS, and ABC--devoted an average of five hours per day covering the Watergate hearings for their first five days.
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Hunt, who often said he preferred the term "Watergate conspirator," died Tuesday at the North Shore Medical Center in Miami after a lengthy bout of pneumonia, said his son, Austin Hunt. He was 88.
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