16. Two weeks before Robert Pauley memo to Jack Wilson, May 2, 1973. “That is one reason why I am happy you are going to be in Washington and that I insisted that Joe have a line in or cassettes on a daily basis. We are dealing here with some what of a vertical situation, that is, the product of Network training. It is up to us to shape changes as time goes by.”
17. William F. Buckley Jr. Letter from Robert Pauley to William Buckley, Oct. 10, 1973.
18. “I have suggested” Undated letter from Robert Pauley to Pat Buchanan.
19. He asked Wilson Confidential memo from Robert Pauley to Jack Wilson, May 2, 1973.
20. When TVN finally launched Memo from Dick Perkin to Jack Wilson, May 11, 1973. “As you know, most of our activity this week is tied into the start-up on May 14,” Perkin wrote.
21. “There will be days” Dan Baum, Citizen Coors: An American Dynasty (New York: HarperCollins, 2000), 112.
22. In one, he complained Memo from Jack Wilson to Joseph Coors and Robert Pauley, June 27, 1973.
23. In another Memo from Jack Wilson to Joseph Coors and Robert Pauley, June 28, 1973.
24. “Why are you covering” Stanhope Gould, “Coors Brews the News,” Columbia Journalism Review, March/April 1975.
25. At another board meeting Robert Pauley’s notes from TVN board meeting of Dec. 18, 1973.
26. Paul Weyrich Jack Shafer, “Fox News 1.0,” Slate, June 5, 2008.
27. “I’ve had no influence” Stephen Isaacs, “Coors Bucks Network ‘Bias’—Sets Up Alternative TV News to Offset Liberals,” Washington Post, May 5, 1975.
28. Ronald Waldman Letter from Robert Pauley to TVN board member Ronald Waldman, reiterating Waldman’s concerns, Aug. 13, 1973.
29. “Let’s not get labeled” Robert Pauley letter to Everett Barnhardt, Adolph Coors Company, July 1, 1974.
30. In February 1974 Gould, “Coors Brews the News.”
31. By the spring, Coors seized TVN board minutes, May 21, 1974.
32. “I hate all those network people” Baum, Citizen Coors, 113.
33. In short order Gould, “Coors Brews the News”; “Slimmed-Down TVN Says It’s Alive and Welclass="underline" Spokesman Talks of Expansion Despite Personnel Reductions,” Broadcasting, Nov. 18, 1974.
34. In July 1974, Ailes delivered Minutes of TVN board meeting of July 23, 1974.
35. four months later Variety, “TVN Gets Shot for What Ailes It: St. John Return,” Nov. 20, 1974.
36. “He didn’t know anything” Author interview with CNN cofounder Reese Schonfeld.
37. “He took on a role” Author interview with Stephen Rosenfield.
38. “Ran 1968 Nixon campaign” Handwritten notes of Robert Pauley on an agenda for a July 23, 1974, Television News board of directors meeting.
39. “Their politics” Author interview with Stephen Rosenfield.
40. “Roger Ailes has quickly given” Report from Jack Wilson to the TVN board, Nov. 27, 1974.
41. The week of Thanksgiving Memo from Roger Ailes to Jack Wilson, Nov. 25, 1974.
42. “Roger Ailes has suggested” Memo from TVN cofounder Richard Perkin to Jack Wilson, Nov. 1974 (no day specified).
43. a profile of Kelly Garrett Gould, “Coors Brews the News.”
44. TVN Enterprises In its Sept. 8, 1975, issue, Broadcasting ran a full-page ad with the title “TVN Enterprises Presents The Last Frontier.” The ad identified TVN Enterprises as the distributor of the film and as a division of Television News Incorporated.
45. Reese Schonfeld, TVN’s vice president Author interview with Reese Schonfeld.
46. In the winter Gould, “Coors Brews the News.”
47. In its first year, TVN TVN financial statement, Dec. 30, 1973. See also handwritten notes of Bob Pauley from the Sept. 25, 1975, TVN board of of directors meeting.
48. Western Union and NASA “Satellite Launched by Western Union for Communication,” New York Times, April 14, 1974.
49. on January 9, 1975 Letter from Jack Wilson to Robert Pauley, Jan. 16, 1975.
50. “I want to find out” Gould, “Coors Brews the News.”
51. He talked with Art Rush Roger Ailes report to TVN Board of Directors, June 2, 1975.
52. Joyce Brothers Memo from Roger Ailes to Jack Wilson, November 25, 1974.
53. Paul Keyes Roger Ailes report to TVN Board of Directors, June 2, 1975.
54. Around this time Report from Roger Ailes to TVN board, June 2, 1975.
55. On his West Coast swing Letter from Jack Wilson to Richard Nixon, June 7, 1975.
56. Wilson hired Bruce Herschensohn Variety, “Nixon Aide Joins TV News Agency,” Feb. 19, 1975.
57. $200-per-day Bruce Herschensohn Private Papers, Pepperdine University.
58. “It is not [Eric] Sevareid” Ibid.
59. From his apartment on Virginia Avenue Ibid.
60. “the disguise of neutrality” Letter from Bruce Herschensohn to Jack Wilson, March 23, 1975.
61. He proposed that TVN producers Bruce Herschensohn’s proposed script of Feb. 17, 1975.
62. Herschensohn viewed his television proposal Bruce Herschensohn Private Papers, Pepperdine University.
63. On April 30 Bruce Herschensohn private papers, Pepperdine University.
64. Anchor Bob Sellers Author interview with former Fox News anchor Bob Sellers.
65. The dish to receive Schonfeld, Me and Ted Against the World, 40.
66. at a choreographed rollout Author interview with Reese Schonfeld.
67. bicentennial film Letter from Bruce Herschensohn to Jack Wilson, July 6, 1975.
68. By September 1975 Handwritten notes of Bob Pauley from the Sept. 25, 1975, TVN board of directors meeting.
69. After his father died Author interview with Jack Wilson.
70. During a board meeting Notes of Robert Pauley on Sept. 25, 1975, TVN board of directors meeting.
71. A few days later TVN press release, Sept. 29, 1975.
72. On October 3 Letter from Jack Wilson to Richard Nixon, Oct. 3, 1975.
73. Ailes did not wait Pauley’s handwritten notes from TVN board meeting of Sept. 25, 1975. Ailes and John McCarty would have a longtime connection. McCarty’s son, Michael, went on to own a pair of eponymous restaurants in Santa Monica, California, and Manhattan frequented by media heavyweights. Ailes was given the head table at Michael’s New York outpost.
74. “He believed all news” Author interview with Barbara Pauley.
75. Reese Schonfeld founded Reese Schonfeld, Me and Ted Against the World: The Unauthorized Founding of CNN (New York: HarperCollins, 2001), 46.
76. In 1976 Ibid., 13.
77. In December 1976 Robert Goldberg and Gerald Jay Goldberg, Citizen Turner: The Wild Rise of an American Tycoon (New York: Harcourt Brace, 1995), 169.