Word: nielsens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first time since A. C. Nielsen Co. began publishing comparative popularity ratings of radio programs (January 1941), a single network-CBS Radio-walked off with the top ten spots for both weekly evening shows and daily daytime programs. The nighttime list...
...Sponsor Philip Morris cigarettes, Lucille and Desi agreed to give their top-rated I Love Lucy show weekly for the next 2½ years, the production expenses to be paid by them. Besides the money, they keep all the rights in their films, which had a higher Nielsen rating (71.7%) than the TV coverage of President Eisenhower's inauguration (67.6%). Said Lucille happily: "It couldn't happen to a nicer pair of kids-I mean our two children, of course...
...dominion Niemans gave their opinions on how the world views today's election. The Toronto Star's Robert P. Nielsen noted the Canadian switch to Stevenson. "It doesn't seem possible that Ike would be as feeble a president as he has been a campaigner...
...things struck Nielsen: "The absurd length of U. S. campaigns and the incredible impact of McCarthyism of your political life . . . I think the U. S. press rates a large boo for having promoted this massacre of freedom...
...Danes need not have been apprehensive. In Manhattan last week they played a program of Stravinsky, Dvorak, Grieg and Danish Composer Carl Nielsen, and thoroughly captivated a big audience in Carnegie Hall. The Danes were more relaxed and easygoing (and a bit less precise) than most top U.S. orchestras. They bowed their strings lightly, making bright, pure threads of sound. The brasses were not particularly powerful, but they sounded as mellow as if the instruments were made of soft copper. The horns-prone in any orchestra to skid off their notes-were as secure as a pipe organ...