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...alone in complaining. ABC Senior Producer Richard Kaplan contended that Ribowsky had misattributed to Kaplan some disparaging remarks about ABC Correspondent Bettina Gregory; TV Guide admitted, in a footnote to Kaplan's letter published two issues later, that he was right. Nonetheless, insists TV Guide National Editor David Sendler, "We stand by our story." The magazine did not, however, stand by Ribowsky; he was dismissed. Explained Sendler: "There were internal problems with his journalism." Ribowsky blames TV Guide researchers for the misattribution, and insists that the reporting about Bradley was accurate. Says Ribowsky: "They hired...
...than 90% in 1977 to 78% today, and a further drop of 8 to 14 points is expected by 1990. That is almost a quarter of the total market in twelve years. CBS, the prime-time champ since 1980, saw its 1982 ratings fall 5% from the year before; ABC lost 5%, and last-place...
...shows. One recent Thursday in the Los Angeles market, a rerun of Three's Company on a local independent station was the top-rated show of the night, higher than Hill Street Blues, Simon & Simon or Magnum, P.I. Says Frederick S. Pierce, president and chief operating officer of ABC, Inc.: "The impact on our ratings is less from the pay movie channels than from the independent stations...
...network people read these tea leaves; they were too busy sipping champagne. This was, after all, the year of Roots, the twelve-hour mini-series that earned the highest ratings in TV history and helped propel ABC to No. 1 status for the first time ever. It was quite a coup for Fred Silverman, ABC'S programming chief, and in 1978 NBC, which had slipped to a gentleman's third place in the ratings, hired him as network president. By 1981 Silverman had pulled off an even more spectacular feat. He had demonstrated that with enough hard work...
...Tinker, former president of the MTM production shop (Mary Tyler Moore, Lou Grant, WKRP in Cincinnati, Hill Street Blues). Tinker had made his reputation at MTM as THE the velvet-gloved champion of creative personnel, but at NBC he was unable to stanch defections by Newsman David Brinkley (to ABC) and Sports Chief Don Ohlmeyer (to independent production). He did woo many of his old MTM employees to develop relatively sophisticated new series, like the sitcom Cheers and the hospital drama St. Elsewhere. With these shows NBC has asserted its image as the "quality network," though...