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MEMORIAL CHURCH. James Dalton, Organist of Queen's College, Oxford, in recital. A program of Gibbons, Blow, Nielsen, and Bach. Free. Friday, October...
...Lady. Maude's great appeal -the show consistently placed in the top five of last year's Nielsen ratings-is her realism, says Arthur. "Maude's age, her outspokenness, make her real. For the first time, a person is coming on in a TV sitcom." Much of the credit goes to Bea Arthur, who is a somewhat softer-spoken, toned-down version of her TV persona. "I'm a big lady with a deep voice, I'm a liberal, and if I get angry I speak out," she says. She is also a consummate comedienne...
...shows will be faced with something new from the A.C. Nielsen Co. this season−national "overnight" ratings available within 48 hours instead of the usual two weeks. This probably will not mean that duds will be replaced earlier in the season, however. As one network executive points out: "It's an effort to get a new show going by January as it is." Thus, although some shows may be condemned sooner, the viewers will still have to serve out their terms...
...when the hearings recessed, viewers were demonstrating a change of heart. In Minneapolis, for example, the switchboard of WCCO-TV blazed indignantly when people tuning in for Watergate found a baseball game instead. Forging ahead of the soaps and game shows, Watergate topped all daytime rivals in the latest Nielsen ratings...
...programmers are like astrologers: every spring they nervously plan for the future by trying to predict what the viewing public will be buying in the fall. Since they all follow the same arcane guidelines, the Nielsen ratings, their predictions are usually much alike. As the networks completed their fall lineup last week, the pattern was clear: cops and comedy-and precious little in between...