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LOS ANGELES TIMES WEDNESDAY, MARCH 10, 1999 F11 TODAY ON IV Prime-Time TV Rankings CHANNELS 'Home' Help ABC Improve to No. 1 In Angela E3 KOCE IPBS) 50 Orange County KVEA fjele.) 23 KCBS (CBS) 02 S3 KDOC (Ind.) 56 UKNBC(NBC)M S3 KLCS(Edu)17 KTLA (WB) 05 ffl KRCAlnd.20 flKABCABC)07 Pam Springs ESPN2BodyShaping FAM The Knock Knock Show 909774 FSW2 Funk AerobicsBody Conditioning HBO Movie "The Fifth Element" (19971 (2 hr. 7 min.) 53061958 LIFE New Attitudes 809720 MTV Music Videos (TVPG) NICK Blue's Clues SCI-H Beyond Reality (TVPG) TLC Slice of Life (TVG) TMC Movie "Stranger in the House" (19971(1 hr. 34 mini 82101497 (9:40) TNN Woman's Day (TVG) 420403 USA Something So Right (TVPG) hiiu ira KMIR (NBC) 04 HI KTTVIFoxMI 42KESQIABC17 25 Santa Barbar. "The Practice" and even a bit of success repeating "The Drew Carey Show" and "Spin City" against NBC's Thursday comedies, though "Frasier" and "Just Shoot Me" still scored lopsided victories.

Another heavily promoted sweeps special, "Opening the Lost Tombs: Live From Egypt," unearthed Fox's highest Tuesday rating this season for anything but the World Series, exceeding the network's average tune-in that night by more than 6 million viewers. CBS struck down the competition Saturday with the new "Walker, Texas Ranger" spinoff, "Sons of Thunder." BRIAN LOWRY SSZS- KEYTABC)07 Monica Lewinsky's "2020" interview and the season's top-rated "Home Improvement" paced ABC to its third win in 24 weeks this season as well as the network's biggest audience since last year's Oscars, based on results issued Tuesday by Nielsen Media Research. With NBC's Thursday lineup in reruns, last Wednesday's two-hour "2020" featuring Lewinsky more than doubled viewing of the week's most-watched series, CBS' "Touched by an Angel," who with its own angelic Monica captured that show's highest rating in nine weeks. ABC's highlights also included another solid showing by National Nielsen Viewershlp IVVVm IIHU.f San Bernardino era itt Jimpi on Lit rvLrtl rDO z- DKFXNPVUQ30 24KVCR (PBS24 KKMEX(Uni)14 Ventura County EE KTBN (ind.) 40 SSKADY (UPN) 16 8:30 a.m. fl KCAL Field Trip (TVY7) 96331 DO KCOP Bloopy's Buddies 45861 fS KWHY Business News 4 KVCR The Art of Women's Health BD KCET Arthur (TVY) 69045 EQ KTBN Lifestyle Magazine 652872 SDKOCETeletubbies 793861 E3KVEAJumanji 29403 KLCS Cursive Handwriting; Math for Primary (8:45) WKADYOuckTales 65671 AMC Movie "The Westerner" (19401(2 CNN CNN Company 638774 COM The Daily Show (TVPG) DISN 101 Dalmatians (TVY) Dear John (TVG) ESPN2 Kiana's Flex Appeal FAM Bobby's World (TVY) 274590 FSW Gilad's Bodies in Motion FSW2 Fox Sports News FX MASH (TVPG) LIFE Designing Women (TVPG-D) NICKRugrats SCI-FI Dark Shadows (TVPG) 1144519 SHOW Movie "Microcosmos" (19961(1 hr 17 min.) 40055861 (8:45) TBS Andy Griffith (TVG) TCM Movie "Go for Broke!" (1951)(1 hr.

32 min.) 9790045 TLCSkinnamarinkTVITVY) USA Major Dad (TVG) WGN Andy Griffith TVG) 36 KMIR The People's Court EB KTBN James Robison 42 KESQ Howie Mandel 38805 B3 KVEA Perro Amor 34774 BD KDOC Southland Today (TVG) BD KLCS Using Maps, Globes. Graphs, Tables, Charts and Diagrams; Taxes in US.History11:15 CNBC Street Signs COM Saturday Night Live DSC Lynette Jennings Housesmart DISN Madeline (TVYI High Rollers (TVPG) ESPN Strongest Man Competition ESPN2 Sports Soccer UEFA Champions league: FC Bayem Munich at 1. FC Kaiserslautern. 8212519 FAM All New Captain Kangaroo (TVY) FX Beverly Hills, 90210 (TVPG) HIST 20th Century (TVPG) LIFE Chicago Hope (TV14-L) MTV All-Time Top 1 0 Videos (TVPG) NICKGullah Gullah Island 282297 SCI-H Sightings (TVPG) TBS Movie "Perry Mason: The Case of the Poisoned Pen" 21590316 TLC A Baby Story (TVPG) TMC Movie "Death on the Nile" TNN Dallas I1VPG-LSV) TNT Movie "Guns of Diablo" (19641(1 hr. 30 min.) 529294 USA Wings (TVPGI VH1 Behind the Music (TVPG L) WGN Empty Nest (TVPG) Here are the rankings for national prime-time network television last week (March 1-7) as 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. Cable) Service 39 63 SCI-FI 87 AMC 35 ESPN 34 SHOW 41 BET 57 ESPN2 84 TBS 43 BRV0 54 FAM 47 TCM 88 CNBC 31 FSW27 TLC 51 COM 79 FX 89 TMC 58 CSPN 29 HBO 33 TNN 49 CMAX 45 HIST 30 TNT 52 CNN 42 LIFE 46 USA 44 DSC 37 MTV 48 VH1 62 DISN 53 NICK 38 WGN 55 Use numbers after call letters to set VCR Plus.

Where there are two numbers, repeat the procedure. A indicates advertisement (fl) in the grid, denotes a repeat program. Movie Ratings A CLASSIC FIRST RATE FLAWED: HAS MOMENTS DESPERATION TIME Nat- View-Program work are 96. 7 Days UPN 3.67 97. The Wayans Bros.

WB 3.59 98. For Your Love WB 3.54 99. The Steve Harvey Show WB 3.53 100. Buffy, the Vampire Slayer WB 3.49 101. Malcolm i Eddie UPN 3.10 102.

Dilbert UPN 2.97 103. Unhappily Ever After WB 2.90 104. Between Brothers UPN 2.73 105. "Inferno" UPN 2.68 106. America's Greatest Pets UPN 2.55 107.

The Sentinel UPN 2.53 108. Hyperion Bay WB 2.51 109. America's Greatest Pets II UPN 2.16 110. Diresta UPN 1.76 111. Love Boat The Net wave UPN 1.65 10:00 a.m.

KCBS The Price Is Right (TVG) KNBC 36 KMIR Roseanne Show 31126 KTLA Sally Jessy Raphael (TV1 4) Domestic violence. 53316 KABC KEYT 42 KESQ The View Wendie Malick: John Larroquette; date rape; pink fashions. 75584 fl KCAL Maury (TVPG) 95316 ED KTTV Andy Griffith EE) KCOP 63 KADY Judge Joe Brown S3 KWHY Business News 24 KVCR Creative Living BD KCET Sesame Street 88229 EBKMEXMaite EB KTBN Behind the Scenes; John Avanzini; Efrem Zimbalist Jr. (10:15) ES KHSC Serious Skin Care S3 KVEA Con Todo el Alma 68497 BD KLCS Challenge of the Unknown G9 KRCA Movie "Donde Nacen los hr.) 27565 Law Order (TVPG) CMAX Movie "Two of a Kind" (19831(1 hr. 29 min.) 833213 CNN CNN Today DSC Home Matters (TVG) DISN Bear in the Big Blue House (TVY) Bob Crane: The EITrue Hollywood Story (TVPG-DSVI ESPN Racehorse Digest ESPN2 NBA 2Night FAM The 700 Club FSW2 Fitting It In FX Beverly Hills, 90210 (TVPG) HISTThe Fifties (TVG) LIFE Party of Five (TVPG) NICK Little Bear 992519 SCI-H Time Trax (TVPG) SHOW Movie "Shadows and Fog" (1992)11 hr.

26 min.) 755836 TBS Hunter TLC Reunion (TVG) TNN Crook Chase (TVG) 31 4403 TNT In the Heat of the Night (TVPG-V) USA The Single Guy (TVPG) VH1 Women First (TVPG) WGN News Network Averages Here is the number of viewers that each network averaged per hour of prime time, for last week and for the season. Nat- VKw- Nat- Vlaw Program work are Program work are 1. 2020 (Wed.) ABC 48.54 47- CopsiMOpm.) rex io.76 2. TouchedbyanAngel CBS 23.06 3. Friends NBC 22.36 50.

-cnrnson TWe" NBC 10.53 4. Home Improvement ABC 21.58 51. "abc News: crime Justice" abc 10.36 5. 60 Minutes CBS 21.41 48 hm cbs mm unr 1 oi 53- Funniest Home Videos ABC 10 04 6" Fr3Sier NBC 19 92 54. Candid Came CBS 10.02 7.

Just Shoot Me (9:30) NBC 19.13 55. u. Doctors cbs 10.01 8. Jesse NBC 18.68 7m Heaven WB 10.01 9 The X-Files FOX 17 91 NewsRadio nbc io.oi 10 The Drew Carev Show ABC 17 57 58' "heiie Kwan SkaiesDlsney" ABC 9.91 1U. me urew wrey snow ABL ll.OI The Drew Carey Show (Thur.) ABC 9.86 11.

ER NBC 16.56 60. Turks CBS 983 12. "Snania Twain Winter Break" CBS 16.27 61. KWs Say me Damdest Things CBS 9.82 13. Dateline NBC (Wed NBC 16.25 62.

Cops FOX 9.72 14. AliyMcBeal FOX 16.01 63. Suddenly Susan NBC 9.66 15. "Seasons of Love" Pan 1 CBS 15.97 64. Spin City (Thur.) ABC 9.59 16.

DharmaaGreg ABC 15.87 65, Providence (10 p.m.) NBC 9.55 17. JAG CBS 15.80 66. Party Of Five FOX 9.54 18. "Opening Lost Tombs: Egypt" FOX 15.65 67. Mad About ou NBC 9.35 19.

Everybody Loves Raymond CBS 15.39 68. Beverly Hills, 90210 FOX 9.23 20. The Practice ABC 15.28 69. America Most Wanted FOX 9.19 21. "Sons ol Thunder" CBS 15.12 70.

Brothers Keeper ABC 9.10 22. "A Memory In My Heart" CBS 15.07 71, Melrose Place FOX 9.05 23. Dateline NBC (Frl.) NBC 14.82 72. Magnificent Seven CBS 8.94 24. 2020 (Sun.) ABC 14.37 73.

The Pretender NBC 8.37 25. The Hughleys ABC 14.35 74. 3rd Rock From the Sun NBC 8.30 26. NYPD Blue ABC 14.23 75. Profiler NBC 7.61 27.

Dateline NBC (Mon.) NBC 14.12 76. 60 Minutes Classes CBS 7.04 28. Spin City ABC 13.86 77. "Four Continent Rgure Skating" NBC 7.00 29. 2020 (Frl.) ABC 13.42 78.

Wodd's Funniest! FOX 689 30. Becker CBS 13 40 79. Dawson's Creek WB 6.45 31. Law Order NBC 12.93 80. "ISU CP.

Final Rgure Skating" ABC 635 32. Dateline NBC (Tue.) NBC 12.71 Touched by an Angel (Wed.) CBS 6.35 33. Nash Bridges CBS 12.51 82. "I Survived a Disaster 3" ABC 6.09 34. Dharmaa Greg ABC 12.38 83.

Millennium FOX 5.82 35. That 70s Show FOX 12.30 84. BtmVm FOX 5.65 36. The Simpsons FOX 12.23 85 "30th NAACP Image Awards" FOX 5.44 37. Providence NBC 12 .05 Star Trek: Voyager UPN 5.32 38.

Just Shoot Me NBC 12.02 g7. 487 39. Walker. Tenas Ranger CBS 11.89 M. 7lh Heaven Beginnings WB 4 56 King of Queens CBS 11.89 89.

Felicity WB 4 27 41. Costly CBS 11.52 90 Smart Guy WB 4.20 42. Diagnosis Murder CBS 11.39 91, Moestla 3 98 43. "Tin Cup" ABC 11.38 92 Sister, Sister WB 3.94 44. "Most Amazing videos" NBC 11.36 93 aueesa 380 45- "El" BC 1125 94.

2oe, Duncan. Jack a Jane WB 3.75 46. Will it Grace NBC 10.85 95 The Jamie Foa Show WB 3.73 TV RATINGS (TVY) All Children (TVY7) Directed to Older Children (TVY7-FV)Directed to Older Children; Fantasyviolence (TVG) General Audience (TVPG) Parental Guidance (TV1 4) Parents Strongly Cautioned (TVMA) Mature Audiences Only D) Suggestive Dialogue ID Coarse Language (S) Sex (V) Violence 11:30 a.m. IT KEYT News tl KNBC Access Hollywood 9294 KTLA Judge Mills Lane fl KABC News ED KTTV Roseanne QD KSCI Taiwan News B3 KWHY Business News KVCR Hands On: Crafts for Kids BD KCET Teletubbies (TVY) 75045 DD KTBN Benny Hinn S3 KVEA Cartas deAmor BD KDOC Headline News BD KLCS Oceans Alive; Oceanos Vivos (11:45) BET Planet Groove CMAX Movie "Mixed Signals" (1997)(1 hr. 27 min.) 879855 CNN Showbiz Today 662126 DISN Katie and Orbie (TVY) ESPN Strongest Man Competition FAM Shining Time Station (TVY) HBO The Making Of: The Fifth Element NICK World of Richard Scarry 832756 SHOW Movie "Kiss Me Goodbye "(19821 2793565 TLC A Baby Story (TVPGI USA Wings (TVPG) WGN Empty Nest (TVPG-S) Last Season weak to data ABC 14.89 million 12.24 CBS 13.13 13.33 NBC 12.11 12.82 FOX 10.27 11.28 WB 4.61 4.65 UPN 3.01 2.78 MORNING 9:00 a.m.

KCBS Martha Stewart Living 1 1 923 3 1 KEYT Regis Kathie Lee 15749 KNBC 36 KMIR Leeza (TV1 4) 19519 KTLA Sally Jessy Raphael (TV1 4) Paternity tests. 55381 KABC KESQ Regis Kathie Lee Ray Romano; Dr. Henry Heimlich. 57749 0 KCAL $3 KADY The Newlywed Game KTTV I Love Lucy EB KCOP NewsRadio (TVPG) 03 KSCI I Can Do It! EB KWHY Business News (24 KVCR Sesame Street 11565 BD KCET Barney (TVY) 87497 EB KTBN Dr. Cherry ES KHSC Spring Entertaining BO KOCE Instructional TV 03KVEA Ely Ella 13923 BD KDOC Life in the Word BD KLCS Teams ESKRCA PobreDiabla Northern Exposure (TVPG) CNBC Power Lunch 93687 CNN Newsday COM Movie "There Goes the Neighborhood" (1992) (2 hr.) 4494519 DSC Assignment Discovery (TVG) DISN Sing Me a Story: With Belle Dear John (TVG) ESPN SportsCenter ESPN2Cory Everson's Gotta Sweat FAMMork and Mindy (TVG) FSW American Health and Fitness FSW2 Fox Sports News FX Picket Fences (TVPG-DV) HIST Damned Engineers at Remagen LIFE Katie Brown (TVG) 278316 MTV Station Zero (TVPG) NICK Kipper 252836 SCI-FI The Twilight Zone (TVPG) TBS Matlock TLC A Wedding Story (TVG) TNN America's Country Hits (TVG) TNT Our Family Honor (TV14) USA The Jeff Foxworthy Show (TVPG) VH1 Back to Back Videos (TVPG) WGN Matlock Southland Viewing Here are Nielsen's top 5 prime-time programs in the Los Angeles area during the same week.

The rankings are based on the number of households watching. Sta- Program AFTERNOON KABC 1,930,798 KTTV 914,048 1. 2020 (Wed.) 2. TheX-Flles 3. 60 Minutes 4.

Frasier KCBS KNBC KNBC 857,562 842,156 831,886 5. Friends 10:30 a.m. ED KTTV Andy Griffith EB KCOP Judge Joe Brown S3 KWHY Business News; Health 84' KVCR Sewing With Nancy EE KTBN Casey Treat BD KDOC Froozles (TVGI 251855 BD KLCS The Art Maker: Tracks: Impressions of America (10:45) AMC Movie "Sayonara" (1957) (2 hr. 30 min.) 622300 DISN Out of the Box (TVY) ESPN America's Horse ESPN2 NCAA Final Four Highlights NICK Franklin 910300 TCM Movie "Going Places" (1938)11 hr. 24 min.) 9690294 TLC Reunion (TVGI USA Boston Common (TVPG) VH1 Pop-Up Video (TVPG) "That's right," Mrs.

Kramer said "All they care about is selling their 8:00 a.m. KCBS This Morning James Coburn; diets; breast cancer; financial report. 18497 El KCAL Beast Wars (TVY7) 46890 DO KCOP Mummies Alive ITVY7) QD KSCI Omid, Today's Physician 03KWHY Business News KVCR About Your House BD KCET Storytime (Repeat) 60774 QD KTBN Kenneth Copeland 03 KOCE Watercolours B3KVEAPistasdeBiue S3 KDOC Robert Tilton BD KLCS Reading Rainbow 97836 ffl KRCA El Magnate 817792 KADV Hercules 66300 Murder, She Wrote BET Jam Zone BRVO Inside the Actors Studio (TVPG) Meg Ryan. 999403 COMDr.KatzlTVPGI DISN Goof Troop (TVY) El Dear John (TVG) ESPN SportsCenter ESPN2 Co-ed Training FAM Bad Dog (TVG) 282519 FSW Fox Sports News FX MASH (TVPG) NB0 Movie "My Boyfriend's Back" (19931(1 hr. 24 min.) 577010 LIFE Designing Women (TVPG-D) NICK Charlie Brown 908565 SCI-FI Dark Shadows (TVPG) 1032720 TBS Andy Griffith (TVGI TLCPappyland(TVY) TMC Movie "Drunks" (1 995) (1 hr.

30 min.) TNT CHiPs (TVPG) USA Major Dad (TVG) WGN Andy Griffith (TVG) commercials. So, naturally, she doesn't care about them. Instead, she watches the two C-SPAN channels. She watches CNN, never missing a series about antiques and that network's legal series, "Burden of Proof." She watches "anything that is classical Noon fl KCBS News KNBC 36 KMIR Another World (TV14) 37749 fl KTLA Little House on the Prairie KABC 1 5 KEYT 42 KESQ All My Children (TVPGI 88497 KCAL News ID KTTV Donny Marie (TVGI Kelly McGillis; Randy Spelling: Britney Spears; Martin Yan. 40836 EB KCOP Montel Williams 97768 EE) KSCI Mandarin Drama KWHY Business News; High-Tech Report (12:201 24! KVCR Kaye's Quilting Friends BD KCET Mister Rogers 63861 US KMEX El Pais de lasMujeres EB KTBN The 700 Club E0KHSC Home Solutions 03 KVEA Movie "El Judas de la Frontera" (2 hr.) 25294 BD KDOC Perry Mason (TVPG-V) BD KLCS introduction to Spanish -ffl KRCA Chespirito "62 KADY Bloomberg Information TV BRVO Central Casting (TVPG) 477818 CNN TalkBack Live 280671 COM One-Night Stand (TVPG) Please see TV LOG F12 music on KCET.

An orchestra or 9:30 a.m. 0 KCAL Real TV 00 KTTV I Love Lucy -m KCOP Martin E3 KWHY Business News BD KCET Puzzle Place (TVYI 94229 EH KTBN Dean and Mary Brown BD KLCS 3-2-1 Classroom Contact (945) S3 KADY The Dating Game BRVO Movie "Colonel CNN Burden of Proof 267720 DISN Winnie the Pooh (TVY) Mysteries Scandals (TVPG-D) 11:00 a.m. KCBS The Young and the Restless TV14)26294 KNBC News 13 KTLA Judge Mills Lane KABC KEYT Port Charles (TVPG) 98300 KCAL Jerry Springer 77792 ED KTTV Grace Under Fire EB KCOP Jenny Jones 71 381 EB KWHY Business News; California Stocks (11:201 24 KVCR America Sews BD KCET The Big Comfy Couch 74316 B3 KMEX Ensename a Querer singers. They also have a wonderful program for night owls called 'Classic It's all classical music and classical bits of stuff. One night I couldn't sleep and wandered out and found it." And she watches Bravo, while bristling at its intrusive ads.

"I grit my teeth at those damned commercials," she said. jure my brain," she said. "So I don't know how you explain me." She attended a small girls' college near home, and later the University of California, but for years was too busy being in sync with her husband's career to earn a bachelor's degree. She didn't get one until much later. At age 69.

Quite a story. Yet there are no Mrs. Kramers on TV. Instead, you get mostly the stuff of sadness or comedy age erosion, dementia and stereotypes when you get anything at all about the elderly. In an era when Americans are not only living longer, but living into old age more productively than ever, this segment of the population is largely invisible on TV, an industry increasingly shaped by those with no knowledge of Earth prior to TV.

You're more apt to see a Venusian than a Mrs. Kramer in prime time. "There are a lot of us who still have our marbles," Mrs. Kramer said. "But I don't think there's a program on the air that depicts an older person being full of life and interests and having knowledge and dignity.

Don't you know that nobody gives, a damn about older peo-. pie? We're not in the buying age." "You mean the 18-to-34 or 18-to-49 demographic groups that advertisers and TV court?" I asked. Mrs. Kramer was sounding like a TV elitist who resisted my best ad vice about the mainstream enter tainment programs that much of aW America watches. "Exactly!" she said, trampling my ego.

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It was not the first time my grammar had prompted a reader response, only the first time the comment was positive. I knew then that Mrs. Kramer and I had a future together. She was highly articulate, opinionated and humorous. Only later would I hear the lusty laugh that accompanied her wit.

Something else about her letter caught my eye, though. It was her age. Mrs. Kramer wrote: "I'm 89." Get outta here. In three months, she will be 91.

Mrs. Kramer never rode in a covered wagon. March being Women's History Month, however, she's about to be honored by Los Angeles officialdom as one of 15 "Pioneer Women" who have made "outstanding contributions to the strength and vitality" of the city. "Don't put that in," she said. "I have to," I said.

"I assure you I don't deserve it," she said. "She does deserve it," said Councilwoman Jackie Goldberg, who nominated her. "She's a son who believes in lifelong learning and has lived a life that has been involved socially and politically with her neighborhood." Her two daughters and three grandchildren must be proud. No publicity hound, Mrs. Kramer insisted that I use only her first or last name.

I opted for the last, because that's how I address her on the phone, where we speak regularly about life she defines herself as a "news and political junkie" and about television. "When I get up in the morning, I rum on CNN, and it's usually the last thing I turn off at the end of the day," she said. "When I do that, I'm looking for breaking news." "So you're watching CNN now?" I asked. "No," she said. "I'm watching C-SPAN2.

They're taking a vote. The Senate is considering exempting the states from some federal regulations. It has to do with education." Mrs. Kramer is no stranger to either the federal government or education. Her late husband, Charles, held various jobs in the F.D.R.

administration during the 1930s and 1940s. And Mrs. Kramer, besides being a former union activist and advocate, spent a dozen years working for the Los Angeles County Board of Education. She was an administrative secretary to the board's clerk when she retired in 1973 from full-time employment, continuing to work part time another 10 years. She's an avid reader who never misses programs about books on the C-SPAN channels.

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