Word: slot
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Salant has long pressed CBS brass, unsuccessfully, to expand the evening network news to a full hour and give documentaries a regular time slot in the programming schedule. "All those ideas I've been pushing at CBS all these years, I'll now try out at NBC," he promised last week at a farewell party at CBS News's studios on Manhattan's West Side. "They've got a good organization at NBC; it's just that their morale is shot...
Betsy Richmond, playing at first singles, and Martha Roberts, in the number two slot, managed to defeat their Penn opponents for the Crimson's only two bright spots of the weekend. Richmond knocked off Sally Zasloff 6-1, 6-3, while Roberts needed three sets to edge Jan Bernstein...
Villanova, with 52 points, squeaked by the University of Texas-El Paso to top the field of about 75 colleges. Auburn Tennessee and Kansas (ties), and Maryland followed (in that order), while Harvard settled comfortably in the seventh slot with 16 points...
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...
...could be argued that Williams landed in the right role in the right time slot (8 p.m., when children control the nation's sets). But Williams is not so much lucky as talented. In his stand-up nightclub act, which he does for free, to keep in touch with live audiences and to try out new material, he displays a range that encompasses Jonathan Winters, Danny Kaye, Steve Martin and Daffy Duck. Though always wearing the same costume-baggy pants, loud shirts, suspenders-he whips in and out of a multitude of comic characterizations. He can mimic the cadences...