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Life's Most Embarrassing Moments (ABC), featuring John Ritter of Three's Company as host, was the No. 1-rated show in the last week of April. Notwithstanding its title, the show was not about Life's most embarrassing moments but television's. It took its place in a long television tradition of ritual humiliation: programs that deliberately embarrass their victims to the mingled amusement and relief of the audience. Shows like Candid Camera tried to catch unwitting people in mortifying circumstances, while The Newlywed Game prodded one spouse to air the other's dirty...
Originally, television quiz shows Like The $64,000 Question tested arcane knowledge known only by the overeducated few. This week's special called The I Love TV Test (ABC, May 19, 8 p.m. E.D.T.) tests a knowledge of television history so superficial that even the most desultory viewer should score at least a B-plus. It is a multiple-choice TV trivia quiz that is merely trivial. Sample question: What was Lucille Ball's baby's name? 1) Little Desi, 2) Little Lucy, 3) Little...
Representatives of ABC, NBC, Newsweek, and the Wall Street Journal, among others, submitted affidavits supporting CBS. Confidentiality for in-house investigations is vital for editors at the Journal, noted Dow Jones News Vice President Edward Cony. "Anything that interferes with their ability to confer with one another fully and candidly diminishes their ability to exercise properly their responsibilities as editors...
...ABC Chairman of the Board Leonard Goldenson first broached the idea to K-School officials when he came to speak in December. The conference was originally scheduled for this month, but in order to allow more thorough planning, it was put off until September...
...idea grew out of ABC's bi-monthly yearly program. Viewpoint, which provides a forum for critics of broadcasting. Next Thursday, ABC will air a similar forum on the media's coverage of elections live from the University of Missouri in which John Anderson, an independent candidate for president in 1980, and former California Gov. Jerry Brown will participate...