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...Pageant organizers will let viewers call in during the three-hour live telecast Sept. 16 and decide whether the swimsuit segment should continue...
...personally hope today's announcement will engender a national debate," Leonard Horn, chief executive of the Miss America Organization, said Wednesday. "Feminists have accused the pageant of exploitation. The question is, what about the American people...
Horn acknowledged that ratings are obviously part of the reason the pageant is holding the vote the night of the contest rather than before...
When it was first televised in the 1950s, 75 percent of American TV households tuned in to the pageant. Ten years ago, that share had dropped to about 25 percent; last year, it was down to 14.3 percent--still a decent showing in the cable era, but far from a smash...
...pageant began in 1921 as a bathing-beauty contest on the Atlantic City, N.J., boardwalk...