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...honor of the Veritas stamp was compounded by the fact that Dr. Mack's particular appearance was calculated to give a veneer of respectability to tales of alien abduction. Alien abduction, the one canard of vacuous day-time info-tainment that not even its trailer-park-bound viewership beats with a straight face...
Even before Nancy and Tonya skated onto center ice, the Winter Olympics were making TV history. For the first 11 days of the Games, prime-time viewership was up 37% over '92. Then, for the women's short program on Wednesday night, ratings soared to an astonishing 48.5, meaning 48.5% of all U.S. homes with TV sets were tuned in, making that broadcast the sixth highest rated TV show of all time. Friday night's figure-skating finale garnered a smaller but still huge...
...relatively small cable network (currently seen in 14.1 million homes), Court TV has surprisingly strong ratings. In the first Nielsen survey of its viewership in October, the channel ranked No. 4 during the day among cable viewers who receive it. Yet Court TV executives are reluctant to credit the Menendez trial with boosting viewership; they would rather have advertisers and cable systems believe the network's audience is stable and continuous, not simply tuning in for the big trials. There are evidently still some doubts: the channel is not yet making money, though Brill says it is slightly ahead...
Just as television producers try to "program" a particular time-slot to maximize viewership, political handlers have long been trying to package their candidates in a similar...
...there will be more playoff games to televise, and playoffs tend to gain higher viewership than regular season games. But tampering with baseball and its traditions may decrease its popularity and, ultimately, decrease viewer interest...