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Dates: during 1970-1979
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For the past few seasons, television insiders have tended to talk mostly about two networks-front-running ABC and third-place NBC. Last week all that changed. After the 1979-80 season's first Nielsen sweeps, second-place CBS quietly rose to the top of the ratings. It was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Sweeps Stakes | 12/17/1979 | See Source »

Though ABC is still likely to be the ratings leader for the season as a whole, its November loss to CBS is the strongest indication yet that its era of sovereignty is over. Explains Joel Segal, a senior vice president at the Ted Bates agency: "Minus the World Series and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Sweeps Stakes | 12/17/1979 | See Source »

ABC's decline is largely a result of corporate overconfidence. In an effort to bolster the few weak spots on its schedule this fall, ABC broke one of TV's sacrosanct laws: it moved winning shows to new time periods. Such traditional Top Ten hits as Happy Days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Sweeps Stakes | 12/17/1979 | See Source »

The key to CBS'S resurgence is its schedule on Sunday, the night when the greatest number of TV sets are in use. With the powerhouse 60 Minutes as a lead-in, such tired CBS sitcoms as Archie Bunker's Place, One Day at a Time, Alice and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Sweeps Stakes | 12/17/1979 | See Source »

Supporters of Jimmy Carter have been calling her two-faced ever since she dumped the incumbent to support Edward Kennedy's quest for the presidency. Speaking cosmetically rather than politically, however, Chicago's Democratic Mayor Jane Byrne really is. The Windy City's feisty mayor is given...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 17, 1979 | 12/17/1979 | See Source »

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