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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...months. Then, last December, Cavett was given one last shot-in late-night competition with NBC's Johnny Carson and CBS's Merv Griffin. That seemed like a more logical hour for Cavett's sophisticated approach, but many of ABC's affiliated stations undermined the network on the assumption that more advertising dollars were to be had by running old movies. Some 30 outlets declined to carry the Cavett show at all; many stations that did (including those in Boston, Miami and Pittsburgh) delayed it until 1 a.m. Naturally, the ABC late-night show-which...
...ratings survey indicate that ABC's gamble with weeknight pro football is paying off. An estimated one-third of the nation's TV households are tuning in to the games. That represents a remarkable 50% audience increase for ABC on Monday evening, a disaster area for the network in seasons past...
Aware that there had never been a successful Negro-hosted weekly network variety show, Flip began rehearsing more than a month early, working five and six hours a day on his singing and dancing. And he has mastered the deceptive ease of the first-class TV host. After appearing on last week's show, Perry Como reported: "Flip knows the things that make you comfortable...
...Those bombers which were pulled out of North Vietnam in 1968 and not used in the South were instead sent to Laos, where massive depopulation bombing had begun even before the fabricated Tonkin Gulf episode in August 1964. As Chomsky tells it, most of northern Laos is now a network of caves and underground tunnels where hundreds of thousands of farmers and peasants have been driven by American bombardment. The idea-as you might have guessed-is to make it as difficult as possible for the insurgent Pathet Lao to organize in the countryside. And the goal-as one must...
...through apparel in Paris.) When Shindig considered them for a show, the head of ABC said No, Tina was too wild-although, as Ike protests, neither Tina nor the Ikettes "ever bumps or grinds. Their hips only move from side to side." After various Hollywood agencies pressured the network to air Ike and Tina, they finally appeared on Hollywood A-Go-Go, (One story has it that a network exec swore that Shinding would be cancelled if Ike and Tina appeared. When they did, the program was killed the next week.) Not long ago, they played on the EdSullivan show...