"I think, over all, good programs have been good programs before they've become good programs in the ratings," Jon Banner, the executive producer of "This Week," said.

Several ABC News executives said that Jon Banner, executive producer of "This Week With George Stephanopoulos," was a likely candidate.

"It's a wide open race," said Jon Banner, executive producer of Mr. Gibson's program.

"It's early," said Jon Banner, the program's executive producer.

"Certainly we've wanted to be No. 1 for some time now," Jon Banner, executive producer of "World News," said yesterday.

In an interview yesterday, Jon Banner, executive producer of "World News," would not discuss any contingencies other than to say that "those decisions are being dealt with."

Jon Banner, executive producer of Mr. Gibson's broadcast, said he found much within the November figures that was encouraging.

"We knew based on the history of this stuff that people's viewing habits don't change in evening news that quickly," said Jon Banner, executive producer of Mr. Jennings's broadcast.

Jon Banner, the executive producer of "World News Tonight" on ABC, said in a telephone interview: "The race was turned on its head.

Though the new incarnation of "This Week" will in many ways resemble the old one, its new executive producer, Jon Banner, said it might at times stray from a strict political focus into other nonpolitical issues.