Shows in 2018 do not get 16.9 ratings anymore! My favorite shows usually pack like, a 1.8 rating! 38. Those included running such films as “Back to the Future,” “The Karate Kid” and the made-for-TV “Goddess of Love,” which featured Vanna White’s acting debut and which nearly beat the somber, serious “War and Remembrance” episode on Nov. What happened, ABC research director Larry Hyams said Monday, is that NBC succeeded with its youth-oriented counterprogramming ploys. The network will have to give sponsors “make-goods”–free or reduced-rate air time to compensate for the lower ratings. Each ratings point represents 904,000 homes.Īdvertising executives said that as a result, ABC–which already expected to lose as much as $20 million on the project–may lose as much as an additional $3 million. Last Wednesday’s closing episode got a 16.9. 13 with a 21.8 rating, but then faltered in the Nielsens. From the Los Angeles Times:ĭespite good reviews and heavy promotion, the first 18-hour installment of ABC’s 32-hour “War and Remembrance” miniseries proved a ratings misfire, audience estimates showed Monday.Īired on seven nights over 11 days, the $110-million sequel to ABC’s 1983 blockbuster “Winds of War” averaged an 18.6 rating–1.6 ratings points below what ABC had promised advertisers. There’s some really upsetting scenes in the miniseries, I mean one of the main characters dies in the gas chambers in a concentration camp. Thing is, I suppose people were either tried of TV in general due to the writer’s strike, or just didn’t want to see the horrors of World War II in primetime. Well, ABC tried again in 1988 with the sequel War & Remembrance. One of which was 1983′s The Winds of War, based on the book by Herman Wouk. In something that would be unheard of today, tv miniseries dominated the non-cable airwaves back then. Better just bring the electronic typewriter. Matt from Dinosaur Dracula has written in extreme detail about these lil guys and their coins in the past.ĭon’t forget Pictionary! I wanna now how much a “small portable computer with a printer” cost back then.
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