Word: shows
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After losing two of his first three bouts, Bierer ran off a mini-streak of four straight victories. But the score in three of those matches was 5-4, and Bierer did not show his best, most aggressive form...
...Gillette, also finished 6-6, and all three of them appeared to be victimized by directing, which Zivkovic said hadn't hurt them but rather had "killed them." Gillette, while having perhaps the best fencing day of his career, lost four dubious 5-4 decisions and had little to show for his performance...
...February sweeps, nearly every night was a blockbusting Sunday, a succession of multimillion-dollar explosions from the networks. Viewers were both delighted and frustrated, but what the TV schedule really showed was an industry in chaos, with each network going all out to knock off the other two. The pyrotechnics from CBS included Rocky, the Grammy Awards show and Marathon Man. NBC fired off James Michener's Centennial, Backstairs at the White House, a six-hour remake of From Here to Eternity, American Graffiti and The Sound of Music. ABC, which now rules the ratings charts, disdained such vulgar...
Thirty percent of the audience-or a 30 share, in broadcast jargon-is usually considered respectable. A share is the percent of the people watching television who are tuned in to a show. It indicates how well the show is doing against the others in its time slot. If the people in 50 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...
Roots: The Next Generations did not quite repeat the astonishing success of Roots I, but the seven episodes nonetheless knocked out everything that CBS and NBC ran against them. On Night 1, the show got a 41% share, beating American Graffiti (33%) and Marathon Man (28%). On Night 3, it pulled its biggest audience, 50% of all viewers, against two more movies. In the next three segments it slipped a couple of points, but still dominated the numbers...