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Since the spread of cable TV systems, the U.S. has been buried under a blanket of television. According to the Nielsen ratings service, approximately 95% of U.S. households have TV sets. But what of the remaining 5%? Some live in mountain areas like Appalachian Georgia, or the new ski-resort town of Vail, Colo., where cable TV has not yet penetrated. Some Americans cannot afford to buy a TV set, although more American homes have TV than have telephones or bathrooms, and, as the Kerner Commission reported, television is "the universal appliance in the ghetto." Thus, many...
Laugh-In was last season's biggest TV hit, and is already a solid Nielsen winner so far this year. But that alone would hardly be enough to draw such a motley assortment of celebrities to the show for $210 per appearance. What appeals is the program's extraordinary ambiance: it has an artful spontaneity, a kind of controlled insanity, emerging from a cascade of crazy cartoon ideas. In yet another TV season of pale copies, Laugh-In is unique. It features no swiveling chorus lines, no tuxedoed crooners. Just those quick flashes of visual and verbal comedy...
...NIELSEN: PIANO MUSIC (RCA Victor). Keyboard music was incidental to Nielsen's career, but this lustrous release echoes most of his compositions at their very best. British Pianist John Ogdon is ideally suited to his assignment. His calm, intelligent performance gives coherence to Nielsen's sometimes aggressive brilliance, and in quiet, crystalline passages, such as the finale of Chacone, he achieves a purity of tone reminiscent of the late Walter Gieseking...
When it's cold outside, people tend to burn their TV sets longer. In fact, according to the A.C. Nielsen Co., audience figures climb 25% in the winter. This January and February, viewing hit an alltime high - 461 hours a week in the average U.S. home. The most habitual viewers are women 50 and over, who put in 331 hours before the set. Least hooked are the teenagers: they sit still for only about 19 hours a week...
Last year's Illinois Junior Champion, Chris Nielsen, had an easy time at the fourth spot, and triumphed, 6-0, 6-1. Fifth and sixth singles players, Bill Brock and Ken Kraft, breezed by the Engineers, and won by scores...