Word: nielsens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chicago, Researcher A. C. Nielsen's list of the Top Ten radio shows contained not a single nighttime program. Radio's decline was further emphasized by the fact that the three top shows were all daytime soap operas: Young Dr. Malone, Guiding Light and Ma Perkins...
...date, the Hitchcock shows have been adequately entertaining if not outstanding. But his grand manner and refreshing potshots at the sponsor have gained the program an impressive 29.5 Nielsen rating, a comfortable four points ahead of its NBC rival, the Goodyear-Alcoa program. For a rating that high, Sponsor Bristol-Myers is more than happy to put up with quips about its commercials...
...Real Nothing." Naturally, he is distressed that his high-rated Perry Como Show (Sat. 8 p.m., NBC) is clobbering its CBS rivals, Jackie Gleason's Stage Show and The Honeymooners. Gleason is not only a nice guy but a good friend of Perry's. In the latest Nielsen Top Ten, the Como show is No. 7 and Gleason is nowhere in sight. Says Perry: "I'd rather go on at 2 o'clock in the morning when there's no trouble. I don't want to fight anybody." On the air, Perry sings four...
...Nielsen rating, covering an earlier period, tends to confirm the Trendex findings. It lists only two NBC shows -at fifth and sixth -in the top ten. Almost as painful to NBC was the news that 1) the Colgate Variety Hour, unable to dent CBS's popular Ed Sullivan Show, had asked to be released from its NBC contract, and 2) NBC's Milton Berle (Tues. 8 p.m.) had his stranglehold on that hour broken for the first time when his rating dipped below that of his CBS opposition, Phil Silvers...
Papa was no king of the wild frontier, but for Utah Territory of the 1880s he was quick on the verbal draw. Mama was going on 18, with braided blond pigtails, when he fired these lines at her: "I love you, Tena Nielsen. I love you with the intensity of the desert sun. I love you with the sweep and grandeur of the mountain peaks. I love you with the humility of a peasant for a princess . . . Don't be afraid of the wrath of your people. My love for you will shield and protect you." Papa...