Word: set
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...women to seek divorces, established by a 1975 law enacted under the Shah, would be repealed. Corporal punishments, such as flogging for theft or drinking, would be reinstituted. Said a disappointed young female university graduate: "What they are proposing is to turn this wonderful victory into a new set of restrictions on our freedom that rivals the previous regime...
...Elvis! was on top with 39% of the audience, CBS and Gone With the Wind had 36%, and NBC with Cuckoo's Nest had 32%. (If that adds up to more than 100%, and it does, it means that some of the families polled had more than one set...
...million households are watching TV on Thursday night at 8, and 25 million are tuned in to Mork & Mindy, the program would have a 50 share. A rating, on the other hand, is the percentage of all the 74 million households in the country that have TVs, whether the sets are turned on or not. Since it is assumed that each TV household consists of an average two viewers at any one time the set is on, each rating point is equivalent to a viewing audience of about 1,500,000 people. On that hypothetical Thursday, for example, Mork & Mindy...
...execute Programmer Paul Klein's idea. "What the hell is it," he asked, "Love Boat on wheels?" Oh, no, he was told; it would be more on the order of Hitchcock's North by Northwest, mystery-comedy with a high sheen. The nightmare began at once. Set builders hammered away 24 hours a day, seven days a week, often without finished designs to follow. Before the standing sets were finished, the cinematographer and most of his crew had quit, along with all the carpenters and many of the construction workers. The miniatures, used for exterior shots...
What you try to reach for in television is that show that will play to all audiences, and once in a while you hit it. All in the Family was one. We all appreciate that the younger audience has almost complete control of the set, and since you want to get the set on and tuned to your station, you make a special effort to get shows on in the early evening that appeal to a younger audience...