Word: segments
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...also called Winds "the most watched program in television history." The network's research department estimated that the show, which ran in prime time over an eight-day period, reached an average of 32.15 million households, and that 140 million people watched "some segment" of the 18 hours. Roots, despite its higher ratings, reached an average of 32 million households and was watched by 135 million people. The inconsistency is explained by the fact that there were fewer TV households in America in 1977. Interestingly, no single episode of Winds placed in the 36 alltime highest-rated shows...
...over. We're going to have more people who have the physical and mental capacity to continue to work and to make a useful contribution. I feel, then, that this bill will end discrimination. I think it will be very helpful as far as an increasingly important segment of the population is concerned. I think also that in so far as the students and the graduate students are concerned, that they have the right to get the best, and in their field of academics it does take some time to be recognized as one of the best. There is talk...
...competition. Grambling, Jackson State and Florida A&M could not effectively compete with nearby white universities for revenues in lucrative cable TV markets. It is either a profound irony or a travesty that SAT sores will be used to exclude Black males from collegiate athletic competition. They are that segment of the population for which the SAT's predict academic performance least efficiently...
...Wouk's early miscues was constructing each evening's segment as a self-contained entity. "I was in virgin territory and tried to end each of the episodes with a cliffhanger," he says. "Curtis showed me that although you might break at a high point, it was really one flow of narrative, just like the novel...
...play the game. Sportsman and TV Tycoon Ted Turner stalked off the set after Cottle prodded him about his father's suicide and his sister's illness. Turner reportedly described Up Close as "the National Enquirer of talk shows," and refused to give permission to air his segment. But most Cottle guests (who receive talk-show scale of $200 to $400) know the ground rules: show and tell...