Word: nielsens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...might expect, Farley instead stands at the front of a church and leads a congregation in the Profession of Faith. Timothy Farley is a priest, and a very contented one of Sunday masses, "On the Road to the Priesthood. If, as he puts it, "the collection plate is the Nielsen rating after the sermon, "then Father Farley is definitely a successful celebrity priest...
Watching a new TV season unfold may be mind numbing for some viewers, but for network executives it is an intense learning experience. Huddled over their weekly Nielsen report cards, they chart the winners and losers, try to divine trends and make mid-course corrections. Judging from the replacement series joining the prime-time schedule this month (the traditional start of TV's "second season"), the networks have done their homework. Herewith, the major lessons of autumn...
...attractive Dudley House may be the solution to the housing problem," committee member Mark Nielsen '86 said yesterday...
...offices in Burbank, several months later. Network executives are celebrating the latest Nielsen ratings: after nine straight seasons in last place in the prime-time race, NBC has finally moved up to No. 2. Its new hit The Cosby Show, a sitcom about the trials of middle-aged parents, is a major reason...
...based on an idea Tartikoff hatched after meeting Mr. T at a boxing match. He came into the office one day and wrote a note: "A-Team. Magnificent Seven, Dirty Dozen, Mission Impossible, Road Warrior all rolled into one, and Mr. T drives the car." The rest is Nielsen history. "I am not an intellectual," says Tartikoff. "I have very restrained, middle-class tastes...