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...really won the 1968-69 season? Michael Dann, CBS senior vice president for programming, feels that he did. With CBS in second place midseason, Dann decided to shift Hawaii Five-0 from its 8 p.m. Thursday time slot (where it started opposite Flying Nun and the second half of Daniel Boone) to 10 p.m. Wednesday (against the less formidable competition of The Outsider and a movie). As a result, Hawaii Five-0 climbed from a 26% share of the audience to 37%. Without that shift, NBC might have finished in first place...
Terry Oxford, playing in the third slot, lost his first set, and trailed 4-2 in the second, with a 40-5 game score. He captured that game and went on to win that set and the one following...
...years, CBS has been trying to find a worthy contender for NBC's Today show. Veterans and beginners were thrown into the 7-9 a.m. time slot: Walter Cronkite, Dick Van Dyke, Mike Wallace, Will Rogers Jr., Jimmy Dean. The only stayer was a kiddie show, Captain Kangaroo. Finally, CBS limited itself to a half-hour Morning News, which concentrated on national and foreign affairs...
LoPucki will move down and play in the number six position, pushing other team members up one slot. Yank Heisler will remain in the number two position and Tommy Wynne will stay at number seven...
...only Princeton senior in the lineup is Win Irwin, who will play against number three Terry Oxford, also a senior. Irwin might have difficulty against Oxford, who unexpectedly went 13-0 last year at the number four slot...