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Thursday March 3 1988-THE DESERT SUN Palm Spring CalW-C7 Snapping ratings sweeps was an Olympic feat for ABC Top TV programs 1 Saturday Olympics 2 "The Cosby 3 Tuesday Olympics 4 "A Different World" 5 Monday Olympics 6 "60 Minutes" 7 "Cheers" 8 Thursday Olympics 9 "Murder She 10 "Matlock" 12 Pack Lite Miller High Life or Miller Genuine Draft NEW YORK (AP) The United States might not have fared that well in the Winter Olympics but ABC was a big winner The high-rated two weeks of prime-time Olympics pre-empting entire schedule have given the network a February sweeps win that breaks 11-sweeps strepk ABC is now second on the season The Olympics averaged a prime-tiqM rating of 193 and a 30 share up 5 percent over the 1984 Winter Olympics according to the AC Nielsen Co ABC estimates that more than 150 million viewers saw some of this year's Games Saturday night's figure-skating finale was last No 1 show earning a rating of 264 and a 43 share and included the highest-rated half hour of Saturday viewing since in 1977 Olympics coverage on Monday Tuesday and Thursday also made it into the top 10 was 12th 17th and 30th ABC had no other prime-time programming The Olympics also apparently helped ABC continue its three-week win streak over CBS in news For the week that ended Feb 26 ABCs News had an average rating of 117 and a 21 share Evening had an 112 and 20 and Nightly had 99 and 18 The rating is the percentage of the nation's 886 million households with televisions The share is a percentage of sets in use ABC won the week that ended Feb 28 with an average rating of 205 NBC was second with 156 and CBS third with 135 It was the highest weekly rating for any network since October 1986 and ABCs highest since October 1985 February is one of four months a year when local ratings are measured for use in negotiating advertising rates With only days left 12 oz NR Bottles Your Choice uncounted in the February sweeps ABC led NBC by about 15 rating points CBS is third NBC has an average 163 after 23 weeks of the television season ABC is second with 141 and CBS third with 136 The four-part miniseries ended disappointingly for NBC The final installment Wednesday night took a slight upturn but was only 20th SAVEI104I3 WEiWILUBEATfANYADVERTISEDIRRICE! -rent locl pnci Live music plays taps for Stage Door 175 Liter Bacardi Rum Light or Dark 80 -m ae LIQUOR BARN PRICE 1 1 40 MAIL-IN REBATE 2J00 YOUR PRICE AFTER REBATE (LIMIT 1) Burgundy Chablis Pink Chablis Rhine or Vin Rose (NV Calif) "It just didn't bring in the people it should have brought she said a shame because I loved what I did But it just didn't Meek said he and Silver "mutually decided to end because the room is better-suited for live music Meek said he'd like to open a dinner theater at a larger hotel but he yet have any definite plans do have four proposals out in four major hotels in the Palm Springs he said "and there has been serious interest (expressed) in a cruple of Meek directed and starred in two one-act plays "A Little Something For The Ducks" and "Chug" during the three-month life of the Stage Door Dinner Theatre and Silver said Meek "was wonderful I have no complaint with But she said the only shows that were regularly well-attended were the Sunday afternoon matinees On the Thursday through Saturday night shows Silver said she found "people want to spend for dinner and then be stuck in the By BRUCE FESSIER DnertSai Eatcrtaleawat Editor PALM SPRINGS The Stage Dooj- Dinner Theatre at Gub Cabaret at the Presidente Hotel is now just Gub Cabaret at the Presidente Hotel The dinner theater closed after its final scheduled performance Feb 6 and began its policy of providing full-time musical entertainment last weekend Singer Tony Marsh is now performing with pianist Claudio Mediera Owner Phyllis Silver said she discontinued the dinner theater run by actor Steve Meek because THE LARGESTSELECTION OFWINE' BEER SPIRITS IN JHE dream is now fond memories Estrella 1986 White Zinfandel (Estate-Paso Robles) 750ml SAVE 260 Girard qqo £SlLua Coffee Uqueur4 098 1985 Sauvignon Blanc (North Coast) 1Liler 14 98 VALUE I 750ml SAVE 260 Estrella -0Q Scotch 1983 Cabernet Sauvignon £9l isaavAl (Estate-Paso Robles) SAVE 260 1 Lr 1 tens yiQQ Drambuie Liqueur jOQQ -V-E499 SK 2249 VALUE favorites? 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