The following year his wife died and he was left a childless widower with an eight rating and a 12 share.

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- This story is about Howard Beale, who was the network news anchorman on UBS TV.

- In his time, Howard Beale had been a mandarin of television, the grand old man of news, with a HUT rating of 16 and a 28 audience share.

- In 1969, however, his fortunes began to decline. He fell to a 22 share.

- The following year his wife died and he was left a childless widower with an eight rating and a 12 share.

- He became morose and isolated, began to drink heavily.

- And on September 22nd 1975 he was fired, effective in two weeks.

- The news was broken to him by Max Schumacher, who was the president of the news division at UBS.

- The two old friends got properly pissed.

- I was at CBS with Ed Murrow in 1951.

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