Word: half-hour
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Over the years, regularly scheduled programs have been getting longer. This season there will be 31 half-hour shows, 36 full-hour programs, three 90-minute extravaganzas and seven two-hour blockbusters. Even 30-minute comedies are being bunched in groups of three, for easy pre-emption by 90-minute specials. The long programs are so schedule-disrupting that they cannot help causing a fundamental change in the old 26-week parade of series episodes, since fewer programs will ride out a season uninterrupted...
Despite the different faiths of the presiding clergymen, the half-hour service is recognizably Protestant in style. It usually begins with a Christian doxology and a short prayer, followed by a hymn -such solid traditional fare as Faith of Our Fathers or O God, Our Help in Ages Past-led by a visiting choir. The sermons, about twelve minutes long, are usually extemporaneous. Pat Nixon calls them "little gems" and plans to privately publish a collection in booklet form. There follows another hymn, benediction, and adjournment to the State Dining Room for coffee and sweet rolls...
McKuen's absence from the TV screen until then was a matter of his own choice. He had turned down every offer to do a television special until he could do it on his own terms: a half-hour one-man show over which he had total control and no interference...
...which Bobby quipped: "I'll compete with anyone, but how can I compete with God?"). Her sisters recall her sitting on a horse backstage at Madison Square Garden, waiting to go on, frowning intently at a book. In accordance with her sodality pledges, she was finishing up her half-hour's spiritual reading...
...find a worthy contender for NBC's Today show. Veterans and beginners were thrown into the 7-9 a.m. time slot: Walter Cronkite, Dick Van Dyke, Mike Wallace, Will Rogers Jr., Jimmy Dean. The only stayer was a kiddie show, Captain Kangaroo. Finally, CBS limited itself to a half-hour Morning News, which concentrated on national and foreign affairs...