Chillicothe Gazette from Chillicothe, Ohio • 28

010 010 10 10 10 2- Chillicothe Gazette Saturday, September 5, 1987 NBC wins week courtesy of Cosby, etc. The Associated Press ABC by a full point and CBS by lineup. The game between the NEW YORK NBC won the ratings race last week, despite a low-rated exhibition football game in its Saturday lineup. As usual, Cosby and company helped the network roll along at the top of the A.C. Nielsen Co.

ratings of last week's shows. The network had an average rating of 12.0 for the week, followed by CBS and ABC in a tie at 11.1. For the 49 weeks of the season to date, NBC's average is 16.0, CBS's is 14.0 and ABC 12.6. TV's sweetest slot is the halfhour following "'The Cosby Show" on NBC. "'The Art of Being a pilot for a show Nielsens NEW YORK (AP) Here are the prime-time television ratings as compiled by the A.C.

Nielsen Co. 1 for the week of August 24-30. Listings include the week's ranking, with full season-to-date ranking in parentheses, rating for the week, and total homes. An in parentheses denotes one-timeonly presentation. A rating measures the percentage of the nation's 87.4 million TV homes.

1. (1) "The Cosby Show," NBC, 24.0 rating, 21.0 million homes. 2. (4) "The Art of Being Nick," NBC, 23.3, 20.4 million homes. 3.

(3) "Cheers." NBC. 21.4. 18.7 million homes. that may never be, tried that time period and finished second in the weekly ratings. "Nick," starring Scott Valentine in a spinoff of his weird boyfriend role on was not picked up for NBC's fall schedule, but it might Cable conversion guide Station Chillicothe Frankfort Waverly MEN Bainbridge uo16ugunt Bourneville Greenfield Williamsport NBC WSAZ-3 Huntington 3 3 3 WCMH-4 Columbus 4 4 4 4 4 4 WLWT-5 5 WKEF-22 8 3 ABC WTVN-6 Columbus 6 6, 6 co 6 6 6 6 6 6 CBS WHIO-7 Dayton 7 7 WDTN-2 WBNS-10 Columbus 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 WKRC-12 NANO WOWK-13 13 13 13 WCHS-8 8 WCPO-9 9 9 PBS WOSU-34 Columbus 9 9 9 2 9 3 9 13 9 WOUB-20 Athens 20 11 Ind.

WRGT-45 Fox WXIX-19 Cincinnati 19 8 5 8 8 Fox WTTE-28 Columbus 28 12 13 13 13 7 13 27 8 Ind. WVAH-23 Huntington Ind. WTJC-26 3 17 3 12 CBN 5 8B 16 5 30 16 Weather 13 PTL: (PTL) 14 31 WGN-9 Chicago 16 11B 20 12 2. WTBS-17 Atlanta 18 11 11 8 12 17 118 119 27 CNN 20 20 15 28 19 Nickelodeon 23 21 17 25 26 21 Arts and Entertainment 24 25 22 25 26 WOR-9 New York 27 ESPN 28 2 7B 11 11 9 12 29 13 Tempo TEMPI 29 Nashville Network 30 8 12 8 2 5 14 24 CNN 31 26 32 19 Cable Value 33 USA Network 34 10B 19 20 MTV 35 9B 18 16 18 22 Financial News Network 36 Showtime 15 19 21 HBO 17 20 22 5 The Movie Channel 21 5 5 3 5 5 Disney Channel (22 21 2 2 Local 12 12 3 WWAT-Channel 53 18 Not carried in TV Times listings Viewers in Clarksburg with cable-ready TVs or VCRs can tune into ESPN on Channel 16; CBN on 17; MTV on 18; USAon 19 and WGN on 20. Bourneville station broadcasts WPBO-42, Portsmouth.

4. (12) "Night Court," NBC, 20.1, 17.6 million homes. 5. (7) "Growing Pains," ABC, 17.8, 15.6 million homes. 6.

(8) Minutes," CBS. 16.3, 14.2 million homes. 7. (9) ABC, 15.9, 13.9 million homes. 7.

(31)- "Designing Women," CBS. 15.9, 13.9 million homes. 9. (46) 20-20," ABC, 15.7, 13.7 million homes. 10.

(18) CBS. 15.6, 13.6 million homes. find a place as a. replacement series. The evening news competition was a virtual dead heat, with NBC the winner at 10.0, followed by ABC at 9.9 and CBS at 9.8.

A week earlier, NBC had exactly the same rating but beat Frank Continued from Cover Wilson in his finest Southern accent (he's from Atlanta). "We were sitting in a funeral home waiting to meet the embalmer and thought a man would come out looking like Boris Karloff. Then this nice-looking woman appears and starts joking with us. We had to use it in the show." Reid had some ground rules he wanted applied to the show. For starters, CBS wanted the show set in the French Quarter, but it was moved to a middleclass black neighborhood because "that just doesn't get covered on TV." For his part, Reid's character will reflect versatile humor.

There will be understated humor, slapstick and even some poignancy. Under no circumstances will viewers be subjected to stereotypical black characters who scream, "Dyno-mite!" or, "Honky" or strut around the room a la George Jefferson. Reid has a couple of other little perks that go with "Frank's Place" that few other actors can boast. One is that he gets to work with his wife, Daphne, on the show. "The pluses of working with your wife are two pay checks, of course," cracks Reid.

"'We both have dreams and goals, and a vision of what we want to do with our careers. Working together is one of those goals. the minus side, well, closeness sometimes breeds friction. It could either be Paradise Cove or Motel Hell," he adds, "but the nice thing is, we respect each other's 1.1. Each rating point represents one percent of the nation's 87.4 million homes with television sets.

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