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“Q Scores were really important, because that’s how people got cast in things. That’s how networks measured the popularity of an anchor person,” said Diane English, creator of the CBS sitcom “Murphy Brown,” which followed the lives of anchors and producers of a network TV newsmagazine.

But I can almost guarantee—while I know some of them, I don’t know every anchor person that will be in an anchor chair for a network for this vote night—but it will be impossible for them not to think to themselves, “Boy, this could really be close this night. That could be an exciting night, and I need to convey that in our coverage.”

Years ago, when I was probably 28, I was at an awards dinner, and a very famous anchor person, whom I had never met, came over to me.

The television reporter and anchor person, obviously moved by the commander’s situation, rightly followed up with mentioning the many first responders who put their communities ahead of their personal situations.

"The Brian Williams story really poisoned the waters of the celebrity anchor person," said Robert Thompson, director of Syracuse University's Bleier Center for Television and Popular Culture.