Word: nielsens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...disgustedly: "Why don't you do a show about real cops?" and arranged for Webb to use the Los Angeles police files. Webb began building a show based on authentic police methods and backgrounds. After three years on radio (this week, the radio Dragnet was rated No.1 by Nielsen researchers), Webb decided to apply his successful formula ("realism plus entertainment...
...suggestion was the work of one Dr. Svend Nielsen, a Danish pathologist currently employed at the S.P.C.A.'s Angell Memorial Animal Hospital in Boston. After dispatching a total of twelve burly and belligerent New England lobsters, the doctor came to the conclusion that they were capable of pain. With a sharp, clinical eye, he noted that shortly before death "the tail is seen to perform small fitlike movements" and that it curls tightly when the lobster finally cashes in its chips. This did not mean, however, that "our humane friends" could not enjoy lobster meat without "those disturbing thoughts...
...this week, the four national TV rating services (Nielsen, Trendex, American Research Bureau and Videodex) were in unaccustomed agreement: each of them rated I Love Lucy as the nation's No. 1 TV show...
Marx and The Great Gildersleeve. This week, as usual, the sudsy characters were wading through their customary tears, trials and triangles. Although NBC has its share of serials, the five most popular ones (according to the current Nielsen rating) are on CBS. The five...
Researcher A. C. Nielsen this week dropped a pair of blockbusters...