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...scored an identical 19.4% (of TV homes with their sets tuned in during an average minute), and ABC was only a whisker off the pace with a 19.3%. Everyone went crazy. CBS-TV was slipping, and the slip eventually led to the fall of its king, James Aubrey. On the other hand, it also meant that perennially third ABC was on the rise, and so over there, there was much patting of backs. No one thought much about NBC. Except, apparently, the viewers. Last week when the national Nielsen for the two-week period ending, April 4 was released...
...meeting. (Subpoenas are not issued for such purposes, and CBS said it had sought no order against her.) When he could finally get a word in, Paley proceeded to the meeting's business, which included the abrupt firing two months ago of CBS-TV President James T. Aubrey Jr. and a drop in first-quarter earnings. Before he could get far, red feather was at him again, and she was soon joined by a gaggle of other hecklers...
...adage that he who lives by the ratings can die by the ratings. A year ago, CBS's Nielsen rating lead was 22.5 to NBC's 18.8 and ABC's 17.6. But all this season the three networks have been in a near dead heat. Had Aubrey lost his magic? He had once made a purseful of profits from sows' ears such as The Beverly Hillbillies and Petticoat Junction. But this year ABC had doped out Aubrey's own patterns and produced hits like the gimmicky Bewitched and the slyly prurient Peyton Place. Moreover...
...Henry, has long deplored TV's "discouraging degree of sameness." Commission investigators have been busy pinpointing the power over TV programming held by what the industry calls "the three men": ABC's Tom Moore, NBC's Bob Kintner, and until last week, CBS's Jim Aubrey. The FCC's Draconian cure: divest the big three of half their prime programming time (7-11 p.m., E.S.T.), hand the task over to sponsors and independents...
...Died. Aubrey Williams, 74, first and only boss of F.D.R.'s National Youth Administration, a gaunt, Alabama-born liberal who helped organize the NYA in 1933 to help Depression youngsters escape from "the dilemma of no experience, no job; no job, no experience," over the next ten years built it into a $50 million-a-year agency providing vocational training for youths from 16 to 25, an idea resurrected last year as the Job Corps by one of his old state directors, Lyndon B. Johnson; of intestinal cancer; in Washington...