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JACK BENNY'S BIRTHDAY SPECIAL (NBC, 10-1 1 p.m.). The eternal 39-year-old cele brates, with help from Lucille Ball, Dan Blocker, Lawrence Welk, Dennis Day, Ann-Margret and Singer Rouvanun...
Radical Fringe. Miller certainly provides plenty of conflict. In a typical hour of programming, he devotes 30 minutes to standard middle-of-the-road pop music: a Frank Sinatra ballad, a Lawrence Welk instrumental and, again and again, Andy Williams singing Battle Hymn of the Republic. Sixteen minutes is given over to smoothly delivered commercials, five minutes to news, and nine minutes to "commentaries on our times." Samples: - On law and order: "I don't agree there's a civil war in this country between blacks and whites. I think there's a great civil war between...
Three of their four children are grown now, so that the Agnews have more leisure-or did until Nixon called. They enjoy Lawrence Welk and art," Judy says, although she did once relate to a painting depicting a forest of TV antennas. Her preferred reading is generally limited to newspapers and magazines...
...Hollywood Palladium, home of Lawrence Welk's champagne music, Dr. Max Rafferty had a few remarks for 1,000 enthusiastic supporters. " Today," he said, "the hydraheaded enemy wears different disguises: the sick mask of obscenity, the wild and raving false face of drug addiction; the sullen mask of subversion; the devilish domino of lawlessness. And so the great wheel of time has come again full circle in our day, and the mantle of our fathers has fallen to our shoulders...
Sponsors also, of course, want not only the right audience but the right price. Take an item like Geritol. ABC's Lawrence Welk Show happens to be running 31st in the cumulative Nielsens, but demographic studies show that Welk is No. 1 for viewers who are 50 years and over. CBS's higher-rated Lucy pulls almost as many of the 50-plus folks and delivers a vast extra audience as well-but one that is not a likely market for Geritol. Geritol obviously gets more for its money paying about $3.40 for every 1,000 viewers over...