Word: saturday-night
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...would have been just as easy to schedule graduation for a Saturday or Sunday. In that way, family members and friends would have been spared business travel, hotel and car rental rates, which tend to be much more expensive than weekend rates. Furthermore, many airlines require Saturday-night stays. For this reason, Harvard's inconsiderate planning has priced graduation out of many people's budgets...
Well, here's a fine how-de-do. The networks keep churning out trendy sitcoms and hip ensemble dramas in a desperate (and largely futile) attempt to attract young viewers. Then CBS trots out an old-fashioned frontier drama, slips it almost sheepishly into the little-watched Saturday-night schedule, and gives it the clumsiest title on TV, Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman. Darned if the homespun series doesn't catch on. Aside from coattail successes like Love and War (which follows Murphy Brown) and The Jackie Thomas Show (after Roseanne), it's the biggest new hit of the season...
...several months MTV, Nick's older sibling, added the show to its Saturday-night lineup. Boosted by the attention, R&S went through the roof. It has now doubled Nickelodeon's ratings for its 11 a.m. Sunday slot. Result: a viewing audience of 2.2 million households -- even though the same six episodes have been recycling all season long. Nickelodeon has just agreed to underwrite 20 new episodes of its hottest show...
...tough economic times, the huge appetite for cheap "Saturday-night- sp ecials" -- or both? Last week Colt's Manufacturing Co., a leading maker of commercial and military firearms, filed for bankruptcy under Chapter 11. A $10 million line of credit proffered by the Connecticut Development Authority and an Austrian bank, Creditanstalt, should give the company, the seventh largest gun producer in the U.S., time to reload and reorganize...
...Twin Peaks, in its new Saturday-night time slot, is languishing in 75th place in the ratings for the season to date, averaging a paltry 16% share of the viewing audience. Yet ABC's chief of programming hails the show as "a great ratings success...