Word: nbc
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...bugging the broadcasters is a drop of 4%-perhaps more-in the number of sets in use. Just as alarming is a fall-off in network ratings among viewers who are still bothering to tune in something or other. To date, helped by its nighttime World Series coverage, NBC has the best prime-time rating. But it is only a 19.3, which just a year ago would have been second in the standings. Indeed, NBC is winning while losing, with its rating down 5% compared with the same period last year. CBS, for 20 years the ratings leader...
...decline in quality. According to this argument, the networks have tied themselves too tightly to a small group of producers who have provided hits in the past but whose shows inevitably have a certain sameness about them. Universal is responsible for 8% prime-time hours (out of 22) on NBC alone this year. Some of the good independents like Norman Lear and Mary Tyler Moore are also overextended -and overimitated. This gives viewers a narrow range of choices: cop and doc shows, ethnic sitcoms, nice-girl sitcoms. It has become harder to tell good from bad in this small spectrum...
...Milwaukee Braves. And, I might as well confess, my ticket too was unearned, a gift from a friend in Washington--where tickets were easier to come by than in either Boston or Cincinati--a friend who knew a Pennsylvania congressman who happened to have a buddy at NBC...
Even before Springsteen's first album was released in 1973, Appel was already on the move. He offered the NBC producer of the Super Bowl the services of his client to sing The Star-Spangled Banner. Informed that Andy Williams had already been recruited, with Blood, Sweat & Tears to perform during half time, he cried, "They're losers and you're a loser too. Some day I'm going to give you a call and remind you of this, then I'm going to make another call...
...evidence, the police department is investigating the alleged rape of a woman cop by a sergeant during a stakeout of an office building. All of which suggests that the life of a female on a big-city force is not quite as simple as that of Angie Dickinson on NBC's Police Woman. In fact, says D.C. Officer Delores Henneghan, 21: "It's like Peyton Place...