Word: tv
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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LAST Thursday the mayor of Marks, Mississippi faced national TV cameras with a furrowed brow. In Memphis, The Rev. Ralph Abernathy of SCLC was preparing to lead a contingent of poor people from the place where Martin Luther King was shot to Marks, a very small, very dusty Delta town, on the first leg of the Poor People's Campaign...
...comfortable niche that takes advantage of his talents as actor, writer and learned wit. He is the "sports essayist" on CBS's Saturday Evening News, and compared with the breathless, cliche-riddled attack of the athletes-turned-commentators, his relaxed, reflective reports are easily the best sportscasting on TV. Sprinkled with quotes from Shelley and Browning, his stories are aimed at the average viewer rather than the batting-average viewer who dotes on statistics...
When it's cold outside, people tend to burn their TV sets longer. In fact, according to the A.C. Nielsen Co., audience figures climb 25% in the winter. This January and February, viewing hit an alltime high - 461 hours a week in the average U.S. home. The most habitual viewers are women 50 and over, who put in 331 hours before the set. Least hooked are the teenagers: they sit still for only about 19 hours a week...
...leading press lord of his state but also its most powerful citizen. In addition to putting out the state's biggest papers, the morning Daily Oklahoman (circ. 190,000) and the afternoon Oklahoma City Times (118,000), his Oklahoma Publishing Co. owns the state's largest TV and radio stations, its largest trucking express service, the Farmer-Stockman (450,000), a monthly reaching farmers throughout the Southwest...
...Last year, according to Walt Disney Productions, 240 million people throughout the world saw a Disney movie, 100 million watched a Disney TV show every week, 800 million read a Disney book or magazine, 50 million heard Disney music, 150 million read a Disney comic strip, and 7,900,000 visited Disneyland...