News on the Home Front

The two new anchor men on the KABC-TV news in Los Angeles were so charming that more than 10,000 letters came in--most of them saying things like "Please send me John Schubeck in a plain brown wrapper." Impressed, the station decided to do virtually that. It ran a contest, with the prize being not only Schubeck but also Fellow Newscaster Joseph Benti, a staff of technicians, a truckload of cameras and cables, and all the paraphernalia needed to deliver a newscast straight from the winner's own home.

Winner Linda Jensen, 17, may have been luckier than the rest of KABC-TV's audience. With the entire six-member Jensen family and a five-man news team squeezed onto two sofas, the personable Schubeck and Benti last week introduced their hosts, then gave the news from the Jensen living room. The weather report originated from the kitchen area, and the sports from the dining room between mouthfuls of garbanzos and over the noise of firecrackers being set off outside by envious neighbors. Said Commentator Ralph Story, taking an oblique crack at the errant aim of newspaper delivery boys: "It's a pleasure to deliver the news right to the Jensens' door, instead of in the bushes where they usually receive it."

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