Word: places
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...past few seasons, television insiders have tended to talk mostly about two networks-front-running ABC and third-place NBC. Last week all that changed. After the 1979-80 season's first Nielsen sweeps, second-place CBS quietly rose to the top of the ratings. It was the first time since January 1976 that ABC had not won the network numbers game...
...resurgence is its schedule on Sunday, the night when the greatest number of TV sets are in use. With the powerhouse 60 Minutes as a lead-in, such tired CBS sitcoms as Archie Bunker's Place, One Day at a Time, Alice and The Jeffersons are consistently near the top of the Nielsens. Trapper John, M.D., a dim hospital drama, is the season's biggest new hit, mainly because it caps CBS's winning Sunday lineup. CBS has shown other new signs of life: modestly successful shows like Dallas, WKRP in Cincinnati and The Dukes of Hazzard...
Last week, playing a concert date in Cincinnati during the first week of an 18-day blitz of the East and Midwest, The Who found itself performing after a crowd stampede that killed eleven people. The tragedy took place outside Riverfront Coliseum as thousands of kids holding unreserved seats charged across a concrete plaza toward two unlocked entrances. The group had not yet come onstage. "If it had happened inside," said Townshend, "I would never have played again." The musicians could not be blamed and, indeed, did not learn what had happened until after the concert. They were shattered...
...kids in the audience "animals." Other commentators were more thoughtful, including a cousin of one of the Cincinnati victims, Linda Mancusi-Ungaro, 18. She appeared before a public hearing in Boston that was called to determine whether the Who concert scheduled for Dec. 16 should be allowed to take place. Mancusi-Ungaro said that it should, and afterward explained why: "The Cincinnati incident was a loss, but to set a precedent for canceling rock concerts based on that tragedy would be inappropriate. Someone at the hearing asked me why this happened at a Who concert, instead of some other group...
...filed a delightful yarn about how the city's street plan made it impossible to go north. This kind of creative license adds to the esprit de corps in the newsroom. Says Managing Editor David Witke: "For many of the people on the staff, the Register is the place they most wanted to work when they were young. This is the place they hoped...