The narration by Sylvia Chase, a news anchor and reporter for KRON-TV, the NBC affiliate in San Francisco, is as basic as you can get.

Occasionally Sylvia Chase, a correspondent for ABC News, tersely relays scene-setting information, but off camera.

The program has not "been contending with the defections . . . of the correspondents Geraldo Rivera and Sylvia Chase," as you state.

He soon became the prime-time anchor along with Roz Abrams and later Sylvia Chase.

Mr. Rivera and Sylvia Chase, a fine correspondent, are now gone.

To help achieve that, it has declined to renew the contracts of correspondents including Sheila MacVicar, Morton Dean and Sylvia Chase.

Sylvia Chase, a correspondent for ABC's "20/20," sets the scene for each but remains off-camera.

Sylvia Chase quit 20/20, although she returned to ABC News many years later.

Sylvia Chase from The Wichita Eagle said that "seeing Madonna live in an arena and seeing her up, close and personal in the tour cassette is totally different.

Like "Hopkins 24/7," this series allows the subjects to do most of the talking, with occasional offstage scene setting by Sylvia Chase, a correspondent for ABC.