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The Index-Journal from Greenwood, South Carolina • Page 16

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The Index-Journali
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Greenwood, South Carolina
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16 The Index-Journal, Greenwood, S.C., Jan. 1, 19B1 First of the Year Prime-time ratings race ends in dead heat for CBS, ABC Specials and by that measure has com 20.8 or 16.2 million, ABC. The next 10 shows: "The Jeffersons," "Archie Bunker's Place," "Trapper John, M.D.," and "House Calls, "all CBS; "John Denver Special" and "Too Close for Comfort," both ABC, and "WKRP in Cincinnati," "Flo" and "Magnum, P.I.", all CBS. 19.1 million, NBC; "Dukes of Hazzard," 23.9 or 18.6 million, and 'One Day at a Time, 22.8 or 17.7 million, both CBS; "Love Boat," 22.4 or 17.4 million, ABC; "Secrets of Midland Heights," 22.2 or 17.3 million, "60 Minutes," 22 or 17.1 million, "M-A-S-H," 21.5 or 16.7 million, and "Alice," 21.1 or 16.5 million, all CBS, and "Three's Company," Carolina Baby lirmil Vmm MKmmt TH MmMtrimr NEW YORK AP) CBS, with "The Secrets of Midland Heights" substituting for the popular "Dallas," finished in a dead heat with ABC in the networks' weekly prime-time ratings race, according to figures from the A.C. Nielsen Co.

During the week which ended Dec. 28, CBS pre-empted "Dallas," which had been No.l seven weeks in a row, with a preview episode from the new series. That programming maneuver cleared the way for "NFL Monday Night Football" on ABC to become the only other show besides "Dallas" to win the weekly competition since the period ending Nov. 2. CBS.

with six of the 10 highest-rated shows for the week, and ABC, with three, each reg istered an average "rating of 16.6 while NBC trailed with 15.3 The networks say that means in an average prime-time minute during the week, 16.6 percent of the nation's TV -equipped homes were tuned to CBS, and the -same percentage watched ABC. It was NBC's ninth week in a row in last place. However, NBC maintains the 1980-81 season started on schedule Sept. 15, when most new programming was blocked by an actors' strike. piled an average rating for the period of 18 to 17.9 for ABC and 18.5 for CBS.

NBC's 18 is the network's highest rating for September through December since 1976. CBS has won the three-way race the two previous weeks, and now is No. 1 for the season that it says began Oct. 27, with a rating of 20 to 18.5 for ABC and 16.2 for NBC. Nielsen says the rating for the ABC game means of all the nation's TV-equipped homes, 25.3 percent saw at least part of the sports program.

CBS had four of the week's six lowest-rated programs, including "The Fat Albert Christmas Special" tied with ABC's 'Omnibus" for the 58th position, followed by the "Kennedy Center Honors" and "The Magic of David Copperfield," both from CBS, "NBC Magazine with David Brinkley" and CBS' re-broadcast of the "Nutcracker" ballet. Here are the week's 10 highest-rated programs "NFL Monday Night Football," Pittsburgh vs. San Diego, with a rating of 25.3 representing 19.7 million homes, ABC; NFL Playoff Game. Houston vs. Oakland, p.m.

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