Gartner

Los Angeles The cost of covering the crisis in the Persian Gulf will jump from about $500,000 to $1 million a week starting today for NBC News.But, if war breaks out Jan. 15, all the money that's being spent by NBC and the other television news operations is not NTC necessarily going to make for more immediate and on-the-spot coverage in American living rooms.That was the message yesterday during a press conference here with Michael Gartner, president of NBC News. Gartner challenged recent predictions and a growing popular perception that the networks -- in part because of new satellite technology -- were poised to cover this war with an unprecedented immediacy.