Word: carsons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nearly ten years NBC's Johnny Carson has monopolized TV's late hours with his facile, funny and cool show-biz chatter. ABC hoped to cut into his audience with Dick Cavett and a more intellectual approach. CBS aimed to bring him down with that old Beverly Hillbilly Merv Griffin. But neither even approached his ratings, and Carson remained undisputed king of the insomniacs. No longer. Since CBS replaced Griffin with a lineup of late movies twelve weeks ago, Carson, for the first time in a decade, has found himself in a ratings race...
...race he often loses. Since the movies began, they have topped Carson's ratings seven out of nine times, although in the latest Nielsen report, Carson averaged a 32.5% share of the viewing audience v. CBS's 31%. (CBS's Griffin, by contrast, had drawn around 16% of the late watchers and ABC's Cavett has drawn about...
...argues-and has the figures to prove it-that though Carson's share of the audience has gone down, his total number of viewers has remained constant. CBS, it contends, has grabbed a whole new audience of diehard film buffs that was not watching the talk shows. Still, the film phenomenon must give pause to Carson, who last week moved his show from New York to Los Angeles, hoping, among other things, that he will be able to attract more show business guests on the West Coast. What makes it all the worse is that Carson's competition...
Emmy Awards. Johnny Carson is MC. live from Hollywood Palladium. 10. May 14. Chan...
...Yorker has always run articles about public issues," Editor Shawn says; the magazine can cite such warnings as Rachel Carson's Silent Spring and James Baldwin's The Fire Next Time ten years ago. But Shawn agrees that both the urgency and frequency of political pieces have increased sharply. In his view, the turning point was the 1970 Cambodian invasion. Richard Goodwin, once a Kennedy speechwriter, wrote a denunciation of Nixon's "usurpation" of power; Shawn used it as an editorial. After that "Notes and Comment," once the fluffy lead-in to each issue, frequently became...