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F10 WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1999 LOS ANGELES TIMES TODAY OH TV Prime-Time TV Rankings CHANNELS Fox a Winner Despite Super Bowl's Tepid Showing SCI-FI Forever Knight (TVPG) SHOW Movie "Rebecca" (1940K2 hr. 10 min.) 84197319 TBS Little House on the Prairie TIC The Big Garage (TVY) TNT CHiPs (TVPG) WGN BatmanSuperman (TVY7-FV) ED KOCE (PBS) 50 B3KDOClnd)56 IBKRCAlnd.20 Palm Springs 36KMIRNBC04 Santa Barbara i 3jKEYT(ABQ 07 San Bernardino 24 KVCR(PBS) 24 Lo Angeles" Orange County DKCBS(C8S)02 OKNBC(NBC04 BKTLAIWBI05 flKABCABC07 KCAL M) 09 BDKTTV(R11 GB KCOPWPN1 13 rBKWHYlnd.22 B0KCET(PBS28 E1KPXN(PAX)X K)KMEX(Uni14 EQ KTBN (Ind.) 40 however, in overall viewing. A one-sided affair featuring an MVP performance by Denver Broncos quarterback John Elway, the Super Bowl audience dropped significantly compared to a year ago, while viewing of Fox's animated shows dipped nearly 40 below NBC's postgame "3rd Rock From the Sun" last year. With most of ABC's Tuesday lineup in reruns, a Jan. 26 showing of the prison drama "The Shaws-hank Redemption" easily won that night.

As a testament to network TV's reach, CBS noted that more than twice as many people watched the film on the network as saw it during its theatrical run. BRIAN LOWRY The lowest-rated Super Bowl since 1990 still hoisted Fox onto the victory stand last week, although disappointing results for the game between Denver and Atlanta and a lengthy postgame show hurt a preview of the animated comedy "Family Guy" and an episode of "The Simpsons" that followed, based on results issued Tuesday by Nielsen Media Research. Even with poor ratings for the Super Bowl and its October World Series telecasts, those major sporting events have helped Fox climb into an unprecedented first-place tie with NBC, on a season-to-date basis, among the young adults most sought by advertisers. Fox still ranks fourth, National Nielsen Viewership ES KVEA Nina Mimada 32864 EE KLCS Challenge of the Unknown EB KRCA Cine 63 KADY Judge Joe Brown ASE Law Order (TVPG) CNN CNN Today DSC Home Matters (TVG) DISN Bear in the Big Blue House (TVY) El Rudy Galindo: The True Hollywood Story (TVPG) ESPN Racehorse Digest ESPN2 NBA 2Night FAM The 700 Club FSVV2 Fitting It In FX Beverly Hills, 90210 (TVPG) HIST Beyond the Wild Blue: A History of the United States Air Force (TVG) UFE Party of Five (TVPG-L) NICK Little Bear 188970 SCI-H Time Trax (TVPG) TBS Hunter TCM Appointment in Tokyo TLC Reunion (TVG) TNN Crook Chase (TVG) 325357 TNT In the Heat of the Night (TVPG-V) USA The Single Guy (TVPG) VH1 Women First (TVPG) WGN News Ventura Court 6JKADY(UPN 16 Cable Services 7:30 a.m. KCAL 63 KADY Doug IB KCOP Jumanji (TVY7) 76628 DO KSCI Iran-Sima (Farsi) 37715 S3 KWHY Business News 2 KVCR Time to Grow ED KCET Zoboomafoo (TVY) 8351 2 EE KTBN Marilyn Hickey EH KOCE America Sews ESKVEARugrats EE KLCS Putting English to Work OS KRCA Emergence DISN Timon Pumbaa (TVY) Homes With Style (TVG) ESPN2BodyShaping FAM All Dogs Go to Heaven (TVY7) FSW Fox Sports News FSW2 Forever Young FX MASH (TVPG) HBO Babar (TVY) UFE Denise Austin's Daily Workout MTV MTV Jams Countdown (TVPG) NICK Tiny Toon Adventures 81 8609 TCM Movie "Destination Tokyo" (19431 (2 hr.

15 min.) 9234390 TIC Jay Jay the Jet Plane (TVY) TMC Movie "Cupid" (1 997) (1 hr. 34 mini 5088135 WGN BatmanSuperman (TVY7-FV) El 63 ESPN 34 ESPN2 84 FAM47 FSW27 FX 39 HBO 33 HIST 30 UfE 46 MTV 48 NICK 38 SO-R 87 SHOW 41 TBS 43 TCM88 TU! 51 TMC 58 TNN49 TNT 52 USA 44 VH162 WGN55 AMC3S BET 57 BRV0 54 CNBC 31 COM 73 CSPN 29 CMAX45 CNN 42 OSC37 DISN 53 Here are the rankings for national prime-time network television last week (Jan. 25-31) compiled by Nielsen Media Research. They are based on the average number of people who watched a program from start to finish. Nielsen estimates that there are 256.6 million potential U.S.

viewers age 2 and older. Viewership is listed here in millions. lim imi nimum I 9:00 a.m. KCBS Martha Stewart Living 92680 i 3 KEYT Regis Kathie Lee 96406 KNBC 36 KMIR Leeza (TVPG Society and the female body. 94048 El KTLA Sally Jessy Raphael (TV14) Domestic violence.

52086 KABC 42 KESQ Regis Kathie Lee Catherine 8ell; Lynn Whitfield. 47154 FJ KCAL Funniest Home Videos 01 KTTV I Love Lucy OO KCOP NewsRadio (TVPG) D3 KSCI I Can Do Itl EB KWHY Business News 24 KVCRWimzie's House 19864 ED KCET Barney (TVY) 44574 EE KTBN Dr. Cherry EE KHSC Accessorize EE KOCE Instructional TV KVEA Ely Ella 87390 EE KDOC Life in the Word EE KLCS Teams ES KRCA A Flor de Piel 77864 63 KADY The Newlywed Game AMC Movie "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" (1945) 31496852 Northern Exposure (TVPG) CMAX Movie "Fat City" (1972) (1 hr. 37 min.) 69373870 (9:05) CNBC Power Lunch 87864 CNN Newsday COM Movie "Spring Break" (1983) (2 hr.) 8306883 DSC Assignment Discovery (TVGI DISN Sing Me a Story: With Belle (TVY) Dear John (TVGI ESPN SportsCenter ESPN2 Cory Everson's Gotta Sweat FAM Mork and Mindy (TVGI FSW American Health and Fitness FSW2 Funk AerobicsBody Conditioning FX Picket Fences (TVPG-D) HIST America's Black Warrior's: Two Wars to Win (TVGI UFE Katie Brown (TVG) 648777 MTV Music Videos (TVPG) NICK You're on Nickelodeon, Charlie Brown 468593 SCI-H The Twilight Zone (TVPG) SHOW Movie "Let It Ride" (19891(1 hr. 27 min.) 7271593 (9:15) TBS Matlock TLC A Wedding Story (TVGI TMC Movie "A New Life" (1 988) (1 hr.

44 min.) 52394715 (9:10) TNN Club Dance (TVG) TNT Under Suspicion USA The Jeff Foxworthy Show (TVPG) WGN Matlock Use numbers after call letters to set VCR Plus. Where there are two numbers, repeat the procedure. A indicates advertisement. (R) in the grid, denotes a repeat program. Movie Ratings A CLASSIC FIRST RATE FLAWED: HAS MOMENTS DESPERATION TIME Net- View-Program work en 102.

The Wayans Bios. WB 4.07 103. Fof Your Love WB 4.00 104. "Muppet Treasure Island" ABC 3.87 105. Hyperion Bay WB 3.70 106.

7 Days UPN 3 59 107. Moesha UPN 3.54 108. The Sentinel UPN 3.16 109. Smart Guy WB 308 110. Hypenon Bay (Wed.) W8 2 85 Diresla UPN 285 112.

Clueless UPN 2 56 113. Zoe, Duncan, Jack 4 Jane WB 2.47 114. Sister, Sister WB 2.32 115. "Alien Cargo" UPN 2.27 116. Malcolm 1 Eddie UPN 2.17 117.

Between Brothers UPN 206 118. Unhappily Ever After WB 1.91 119. Smart Guy (Sun.) WB 1.84 120. Sister. Sister (Sun.) WB 1.82 121.

Love Boat: The Nent Wave UPN 1.56 122. Legacy UPN 1.53 10:30 a.m. 03 KTTV Andy Griffith DO KCOP Judge Joe Brown S3 KWHY Business News; Health News (10 50) 24 KVCR Sewing With Nancy EE KTBN Casey Treat EE KDOC Froozles 335609 EE KLCS The Art Maker; Tracks: Impressions of America (10:45) CMAX Movie "The Fifth Element" (1997) 58790628 (10:45) DISN Out of the Box (TVY) ESPN American Muscle ESPN2 NBA Fantastic Series NICK Franklin 464777 SHOW Movie "The Seven Year Itch" (19551 7401 5883 (10:45) TLC Reunion (TVG) USA Boston Common (TVPG) VH1 Pop-Up Video (TVPG-D) John Elway Program Net- View-work era TV RATINGS (TVYI All Children TVY7 Directed to Older Children TVY7-FV Directed to Older Children; Fantasyviolence (TVGI General Audience (TVPG) Parental Guidance (TV1 4) Parents Strongly Cautioned ITVMA) Mature Audiences Only (D Suggestive Dialogue (L) Coarse Language (SI Sex V) Violence Nat- View-Program work art 1. Super Bowl XXXIII FOX 83.72 2. Super Bowl Postgame FOX 44.72 3.

Family Guy FOX 22.00 4. Friends NBC 20.21 5. The Simpsons FOX 19.11 6. Frasier NBC 18.21 7. Jesse NBC 17.08 8.

ER NBC 16.78 9. The Drew Carey Show ABC 16.48 10. 2020 (Wed.) ABC 15.61 11. "Shawshank Redemption" CBS 15 58 12. Providence NBC 15.28 13.

Everybody Loves Raymond CBS 15.25 14. Whose line Is It Anyway? ABC 14.70 15. Becker CBS 14.68 16. 2020 (Fn.) ABC 14.64 17. Veronica's Closet NBC 14.55 IB.

Home Improvement ABC 14.50 19. Diagnosis Murder CBS 1380 20. ABC 13.76 21. Walker, Texas Ranger CBS 13.53 22. AllyMcBeal FOX 13 50 23.

Dateline NBC (Tue.) NBC 13.47 24. Sabhna, ttie Teenage Witch ABC 13.38 25. Spin City ABC 13.23 26. Dateline NSC (Wed.) NBC 13.19 27. Cops 18:30 pm.) FOX 13.17 28.

Cosby CBS 13.05 29. 60 Minutes II CBS 12.98 30. Dateline NBC (Fn.) NBC 12.95 31. Turks CBS 12.80 32. law Older N8C 12.77 33.

King of Queens CBS 12.59 34. America's Most Wanted FOX 12.18 35. Dateline NBC (Mon.) NBC 12.15 36. 60 Minutes CBS 11.96 37. Boy Meets World ABC 11.94 38.

TheHughleys ABC 11.76 39. Cops FOX 11.71 40. Brother's Keeper ABC 11.59 41. Two Guys, Gid, Pizza Place ABC 1158 42. Nash Bridges CBS 11.35 43.

Touched by an Angel' C8S 11.21 44. Magnificent Seven CBS 10.98 45. The Practice ABC 10.95 46. Two of a Kind ABC 1091 47. Homicide: Ufe on the Street NBC 10.67 48.

Party of Five FOX 10.46 49. Sports Night ABC 10.42 50. LA: Doctors CBS 1039 51. Beverly Hills, 90210 FOX 10.35 52. "My last Love" ABC 10 34 53.

"Celebrity Weddings" ABC 10.32 54 48 Hours CBS 10.19 55. 48 Hours (Sun.) CBS 10.08 56. Kids Say Damdest Things CBS 10.01 57. Candid Camera CBS 9.79 58. PIS FOX 9.73 59.

Martial Law CBS 9.66 60. Just Shoot Me NBC 9.58 61. 7th Heaven WB 9.48 MORNING 8:00 a.m. KCBS This Morning "Hollywood" Hulk Hogan; robotic heart surgery; financial report. 82864 El KCAL Beast Wars (TVY7) 36777 DO KCOP Mummies Alive (TVY7) 76319 KWHY Business News KVCR About Your House With Bob Yapp ED KCET Storytime (Repeat) 54951 EE KTBN Kenneth Copeland EE KHSC Designer Clearance EE KOCE Inspiration of Painting: Oils EB KVEA Blue's Clues 03 KDOC Robert Ulton EE KLCS Reading Rainbow 61203 .63 KADY Hercules 92357 Murder, She Wrote BET Jam Zone BRVO Inside the Actors Studio (TVPG) Carol Burnett.

900357 COM Dr. Katz (TVPG) DISN Goof Troop (TVY) Dear John (TVGI ESPN SportsCenter ESPN2 Co-ed Training FAM Bad Dog (TVG) 645680 FSW Fox Sports News FSW2 Fox Sports News FX MASH (TVPG) HBO Movie "Coyote Summer" (1996) (1 hr. 33 min.) 8678375 UFE Designing Women (TVPG-D) NICK Rocko's Modern Life 478970 SCI-H Dark Shadows (TVPG) 731 5390 TBS Andy Griffith (TVG) TLCPappylandTVY TNT CHiPs (TVPG) USA Major Dad (TVG) WGN Andy Griffith (TVG) 62. Wildest Police Videos FOX 9.45 Cable Top 10 63. Mad About You NBC 9.29 64.

Gumnesswortd Records FOX 8.72 Here are Nielsen top 10 cable pro- 65. Wilis Grace nbc 8 69 grams in prime time last week, also ranked 66. America's Funniest Videos 2 abc 8 56 by total viewers (in millions). 67. Suddenly Susan NBC 8 48 68.

Caroline In the City NBC 8.47 fnpm work en King of the Hill FOX 8.47 Wrestling (Sun. 8 p.m.) USA 8.90 70. NewsRadio NBC 8.40 2. Wrestling 9 p.m.) USA 6.51 71. NYPD Blue ABC 8.38 3, Wrestling 8 p.m.) TNT 6.03 72.

MelrosePlace FOX- 8.15 4. Wrestling 10 p.m.) USA 5.90 73. Chicago Hope CBS 8.00 5. Wrestling 10 p.m.) TNT 5.34 74. The Pretender NBC 7.93 6.

"Oeathbowl '99" MTV 4.91 75. America's Funniest Videos 1 ABC 7.80 7. Wrestling 9 p.m.) TNT 4.87 76. Fox Files FOX 7.79 8. Wrestling (Thur, 9 p.m.) TBS 4.77 77.

3rd Rock From the Sun N8C 7.52 9. Wrestling 8 p.m.) TBS 4.60 78. Profiler NBC 7.39 10. Wrestling 7 p.m.) USA 3.94 79. "ABC News Special" ABC 7.30 80.

Exploring the High Frontier" NBC 7.27 kjotuunrl AvorArfA 81. All Star Comedy Blitz" CBS 6.94 WOtWPaR MWCI Ojgoa 82 LatellTO N8C 6 87 Here is the number of viewers that each 83. "ABC News: Chme 4 Justice" ABC 6.82 A ri 84. Dilbert upn 6.79 network averaged per hour of prime time, 85. working nbc 6.73 for last week and for the season.

Im Samoa 86. Vengeance Unlimited ABC 6.66 87. "Mr. Wrong" ABC 6.38 88. "Miami Rhapsody" NBC 622 fo 24.52 million 11.43 The Nanny CBS 6 22 CFjS gl 13 22 Encore! Encore! NBC 6 22 91.

Dawson's Creek WB 6.16 NBC 10 38 1Z'47 92. Buffy, the Vampire Slayer WB 5.93 ABC 9.68 12.09 93. Cupid ABC 5.77 WB 4.45 4.57 94. Brimstone FOX 5.76 ijph 3.01 2.72 95. Maggie Winters CBS 5.75 96.

Star Trek: Voyager UPN 5.74 97. Millennium FOX 5.55 SOU til 1300 VlOWillg 98. "Clueless" NBC 5.50 99. The Steve Harvey Show WB 5.12 Nielsen's Top 10 prime-time programs 100. Felicity wb 5.05 in the Los Angeles area during the same 101.

The Jamie Foxx Show WB 4,88 week were unavailable at press time. 9:30 a.m. El KCAL Real TV (TVPG) ED KTTV I Love Lucy DO KCOP Martin 03 KWHY Business News 24 KVCR Once Upon a Tree 60086 50 KCET The Puzzle Place (TVY) 95796 EE KTBN Dean and Mary Brown EE KLCS 3-2-1 Classroom Contact (9:45 ESKRCATresPatines 63 KADY The Dating Game BRVO Movie "September" (19871(2 hr.) 743970 CNN Burden of Proof 722203 DISN Winnie the Pooh (TVY) Mysteries Scandals (TVPG-V) ESPN2BodyShaping FAM The Knock Knock Show 375319 FSW2 Forever Young HBO Movie "Steal Big, Steal Little" (1995) UFE New Attitudes (TVPG) 371 593 NICK Blue's Clues SCI-FI Beyond Reality (TVPG) TLC Slice of Life (TVGI USA Something So Right (TVPG) 11:00 a.m. KCBS The Young and the Restless (TV14) 63357 CI KNBC News KTLA Judge Mills Lane fl KABC 3 KEYT Port Charles (TVPG-L) 79067 Fl KCAL Jerry Springer (TV14) 29951 Gl KTTV Grace Under Fire DO KCOP Jenny Jones (TVPG-L) 52048 53 KWHY Business News; California Stocks (11:20) 24 KVCR America Sews 50 KCET The Big Comfy Couch 75883 EE) KMEX Grandes Histotias: Maria Jose 43390 36 KMIR The People's Court EE KTBN James Robison 42 KESQ Howie Mandel 76222 E5 KVEA Perro Amor 52628 EE KDOC Southland Today (TVG) EE KLCS Using Maps, Globes, Graphs, Tables, Charts and Diagrams, Taxes in U.S. History (11:15) AMC Movie "The McConnell Story" (1955) (2 hr.) 4069406 (11:15) CNBC Street Signs COM Anything but Love (TVPG) DSC Lynette Jennings Housesmart (TVG) DISN Madeline (TVY) Plastic Surgery ESPN Billiards ESPN2 Sports Auto Racing ARCA Practice.

5962777 FAM All New Captain Kangaroo (TVY) FX Beverly Hills, 90210 (TVPG) HIST 20th Century (TVPG) UFE Chicago Hope (TV14) MTV Rocks Off (TVPG) NICK Gullah Gullah Island 760338 SCI-FI Sightings (TVPG) TBS Movie "Tank" (1 984) (2 hr. 5 min.) 64960241 TCM Movie "Tokyo Joe" (1 949) (1 hr. 28 min.) 3926067 TIC A Baby Story (TVPG) TMC Movie "Creature" (1 985) (1 hr. 37 min.) 4149241 TNN Dallas (TVGI TNT Movie "Nevada Smith" (19661 (3 hr.) 672636 USA Wings (TVPG) VH1 Whitney Houston Video Collection (TVPG) WGN Empty Nest (TVPG-SI Please ee TV LOG FU 7:00 a.m. fi KCBS News KNBC 36 KMIR Today Supermarket take-out food, train vacations for seniors.

59154 KTLA Morning News 97338 KABC 1 3 i KEYT 42 KESQ Good Morning America Roger Clinton, brother of President Clinton; child-proofing the home. 82406 El KCAL Hercules 31 796 DO KTTV Good Day A. 22048 IB KCOPPokemon 57593 KWHY Business News 24 KVCR Time to Grow HD KCET Barney (TVY) (Repeat) 71 777 EJKMEXjDespierta America! 138845 EE KTBN Rod Parsley 03 KOCE Voices in Democracy 03 KVEA Rocko's Modern Life 24845 03 KDOC News BDKLCS Learning English ESKRCAIsIa de Jordan i63i KADY Bloomberg Information TV AMC Movie Living It Up" (1954)11 hr. 45 min.) 93950048 (7:15) The Equalizer CMAX Movie "Daddy Long Legs" (1955) (2 hr. 5 min.) 40510203 CNBC Market Watch 28609 CSPN House of Representatives 4897280 DISN Aladdin (TVY) Homes With Style (TVG) ESPN SportsCenter ESPN2 Cory Everson's Gotta Sweat FAM Pee-wee's Playhouse (TVY) FSW Fox Sports News FSW2 Funk AerobicsBody Conditioning FX MASH (TVPG) HBO The Country Mouse and the City Mouse Adventures (TVY) HIST Shaka Zulu (TVPG) (Part 3 of 5) 24883 UFE Denise Austin's Fit Lite MTV MTV News Link (TVPG) NICK Garfield and Friends 899574 8:30 a.m.

El KCAL Field Trip ITVY7) 35048 DO KCOP Bloopy's Buddies 68390 E3 KWHY Business News '2 KVCR Tots TV 28512 ED KCET Arthur (TVY) 53222 EE KTBN Lifestyle Magazine 479609 B3 KOCE Teletubbies 70471 5 ES KVEA Jumanji 20970 EE KLCS Cursive Handwriting; Math for Primary (8:45) KRCA A FI or de Pie 1 8651 2 S3 KADY OuckTales 91628 CNN CNN Company 864195 COM The Daily Show (TVPG) DISN 101 Dalmatians (TVY) Dear John (TVGI ESPN2 Kiana's Flex Appeal FAM Bobby's World (TVY) 644951 FSW Gilad's Bodies in Motion FX MASH (TVPG) UFE Designing Women (TVPG-D) NICKRugrats SCI-FI Dark Shadows (TVPG) 7314661 TBS Andy Griffith (TVG) TLC Skinnamarink TV (TVY) USA Major Dad (TVG) WGN Andy Griffith (TVGI RADIO a KCBS The Price Is Right (TVG) II KNBC 36 KMIR Roseanne Show Paula Jones. 38661 0 KTLA Sally Jessy Raphael ITV1 4) Jilted, pregnant women. 76845 KABC 3 KEYT 42: KESQ The View Judge Judy Sheindlin; singer Natalie Merchant. 94241 El KCAL Maury (TVG) 4971 5 DO KTTV Andy Griffith DO KCOP Judge Joe Brown S3 KWHY Business News 124 KVCR Creative Living ED KCET Sesame Street 89796 EE) KMEX Maite (TVPG) EE KTBN Behind the Scenes; John Avanzini; EfremZimbalist Jr. (10:15) EE KHSC Absolute Brilliance Orchestra), Bartdk (Concerto for Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic), KKGO-FM (105.1).

p.m. Rockllne: Music and interviews with Nancy Wilson of Heart, Eddie Money, KCBS-EM (93.1). 9 p.m.-mldnlght Doug Barry, KPLS (830). Tips for Today 4-7 p.m. Larry Mantle's Airtalk: "The Elegant Universe: Superslrings, Hidden Dimensions and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory" p.m.); "Creating Mind: How the Brain Works" p.m.), "Science and Pseudoscience in Archeology" p.m.), KPCC-FM (89.3).

7- 9 p.m. The Record Shelf: Interview with David Harrington, founding member of the Kronos Quartet, KXSN-FM (88.5). 8- 10 p.m. Evening Concert: Haydn (104th Symphony, Los Angeles Chamber 'v. k.i MiTSiTilTlTn I 1 1 I iKf :1 3 1TH ill 1 3 1 LJi FOX CINEPLEX 1 BANNING-909849-3277 ACADEMY 1, 1003 E.

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There is no care or crafi in the making of these live pictures, and you're rarely smarter for watching them. You learn nothing about the fugitive motorist, nothing about what brought him or her to this moment of crisis, nothing about the mind-sets of the police officers in pursuit, nothing about the conditions of society that may be the incident's backdrop, and usually no details even about the crime that was its genesis. In the early 1980s, Norman Cor-win wrote of a "low-grade, chronic disease" that was spreading across the U.S. "Now and then the symptoms abate, but they return," he explained. "For the most part, Americans do not know what they suffer from, and those who do are divided about its nature, whether they want to cure it, and whether it can be cured at all." He called the disease the "trivializing" of America.

In other words, beep them and they will come. Dolby SR Waking Ned Devine it. And more, fundamentally they watch because they, too, are being beeped, and relentlessly, having been programmed by professional football and Madison Avenue to believe the Super Bowl to be an event for the ages. Giving it Roman numerals has to go down as one of the genius sales concepts of the millennium. At least the Super Bowl is punctuated by customized ads that emerge from creative thinking.

Even more mysterious, and a subject for students of the human brain, is the attraction of Car Chase XXXIII. You want to tell these beepees to get a life, or at least change the one they have. In TV's infant days, Americans would sit like lumps in front of the set transfixed by the test pattern. But TV was then a gimmick. The chases are now routine.

"What it comes down to is good vs. evil," Kuwahara believes. "People like seeing cops and robbers." His Web site message goes further in defining the appeal: "No one, not even the TV news producers, know what the ending will be, perhaps an incredible collision or deadly confrontation." Of course, the potential big ka-blooey. Yet to what end? You can learn much from a good painting, from peering into the FIVE STAR 3. Northridge VINE.

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1, PursuitWatch has attracted more than 300 subscribers through its Web Kuwahara said. "We've given them four notifications already," he said. Which affirms that there is a market for everything, even though odds are about zero of there being another chase even close to being as newsworthy or dramatic as OJ. Simpson's 1994 freeway flight. Although Kuwahara needs more than several hundred subscribers to make a go of this, he dreams of expanding to other regions if PursuitWatch is successful here.

And if it is, why stop with car chases? A televised vote on the Senate floor on whether to convict President Clinton? Nah, borrrrrring. But why not a beeper service calling viewers to the set for televised fires? Or for the next time newscasts lead with a former husband of a celebrity injuring himself falling down a flight of stairs? Local stations have been saying for some time that their ratings jump when they preempt regular programming to show a chase. "If you're ever in Circuit City during one of these chases," Kuwahara said, "you're gonna see people gathered around the sets." Why some watch the TV they do is always a mystery to those with different tastes. The big TV story coming out of Sunday's Super Bowl, for example, is not that its ratings were the lowest since 1990, but that an estimated 127 million Americans did watch. Think of it, nearly half the nation witnessing an event in which most have no deep interest or root for one side or the other.

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