Word: viewer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...needed bolstering on Saturday night, where CBS has a virtual viewer monopoly with All in the Family, Bridget Loves Bernie and The Mary Tyler Moore Show. Dropped were Alias Smith and Jones, a western inspired by the movie Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, and The Sixth Sense, a pseudo-mystery about extrasensory perception that showed absolutely no prescience about what viewers wanted. As replacements, ABC has scheduled a new comedy starring Shirley Booth called A Touch of Grace-based, like several recent TV successes, on a British series-and a sitcom titled Here We Go Again, starring Larry Hagman...
Accuracy. The viewer could have registered the same plaint. For all their frantic promotion, their booming patriotism and self-congratulation, the networks gave a fatigued and indifferent performance. During the warmups, there was a moment of suspense; then the computers ratified the polls and all was over. At 8:30 p.m., NBC won the presidential prediction match by calling Nixon the victor. CBS followed about 20 minutes later. At 9:20, ABC chimed in with its prediction of a landslide...
...some 20 locations. The network was thus forced to stay within a restricted area, leaning even more heavily upon the services of an oaken but somewhat weary Walter Cronkite. Despite this, when the early Nielsens came in, they showed CBS ahead by 15% in New York City's viewer vote. In later tallies, NBC came out ahead. "I dunno," said a CBS executive, shaking his head. "Maybe they tuned in to see us goof up. Or maybe they just got tired of all those remotes on the other networks." Actually, there were no real goof-ups; supervisory personnel...
...networks maintained their honorable tradition of losing money on the Big Night. The answer does not lie behind the screen but before it. "Every man speaks of public opinion," wrote G.K. Chesterton, "and means by public opinion, public opinion minus his opinion." No matter what the polls said, the viewer had to see it for himself. What he saw was not only the President winning by a landslide but three networks involved in a tie for last place...
Those works that illustrate prayer most vividly for the viewer are the ones that make no explicit reference to religious inconography or to humans in the act of praying. As his previous show. Being Without Clothes, had nothing to do with nude or naked human beings, this exhibit draws attention away from dogmatic iconography to its extensive treatment of the spiritual. Implying such spirituality without specific religious symbols are such pictures as Ruth Breil's ecstatic photo of Yestushenko at a microphone or Minor White's own "Snowy Road" where car tracks in the snow evoke the presence of more...