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Obviously aware of the emotional flames that would be fanned by stiff sentences, Judge Leland Nielsen last week announced, "I am not going to make martyrs out of them by sending them to jail." He reversed Hohenstein's conviction and ordered a new trial for him. Nielsen gave the others suspended sentences and probation for six to 36 months, plus fines ranging from $50 to $1,000. Meanwhile, Heck has sold his San Diego office to repay IRS and has reopened in nearby El Cajon...
...years, NBC'S Johnny Carson was the undisputed king of late-night television. During part of that time, CBS and ABC scarcely bothered to try to topple him from the peak of the Nielsen ratings. When they did, as in CBS'S venture with Merv Griffin in a Carson-style format, they flopped. CBS eventually gave up and last year opted for the sizable audience of insomniacs who want nothing more than to watch old movies. Now ABC thinks that it has found still a third audience with what it calls its Wide World of Entertainment...
SANDERS THEATER. Boston Symphony Chamber Players. Works of Nielsen, Sydeman (1965), and works Dvorak. Tickets...
...same as selecting to coach the Washington Redskins someone who detests football. Let us hope for some avid on-the-job training." Other critics saw Loomis' appointment as a victory for the commercial stations, which presumably will now have less worry about popular public broadcasting shows stealing their Nielsen ratings-and their profits...
...Winning team at the Miami marathon," bragged NBC. "Audiences turned their attention to the CBS News team," proclaimed CBS. In the aftermath of the Democratic National Convention, each network announced that it had won the ratings game and quoted conflicting figures to prove it. Last week the A.C. Nielsen Co., which conducts the most reliable survey, confirmed NBC's claim. According to Nielsen, NBC drew an average 25% of the national viewing audience for the convention's four nights, compared with 23% for CBS and 16% for ABC (which came on the air from Miami Beach only...