Southern Illinoisan from Carbondale, Illinois • Page 12

Page Twelve ILLINOISAN, THURSDAY, JULY 10, 1980 Carbondale-Herrin-AAurphysboro-AAarlon sen rating sinks to 4-yeair low MM Here are the week's Top 10 shows: "M-A-S-H," CBS, and "Three's Company," ABC, both with ratings of 21.9 representing 16.7 million homes; "Hart to Hart," 21.2 or 16.2 million, "Vegas," 20.9 or 15.9 million, and VTaxi," 20.7 or 15.8 million, all ABC; "House Calls," CBS, and "Fantasy rAB, both 19.4 or 14.8 million, and "Lou Grant," 19.3 or 14.7 million, Jeffersons," 18.8 or 14.4 million, and "0 Minutes," 18.7 or 14.3 million, allJCBS. among the 20 highest rated. "Phyl and Mikhy" on CBS tied for 20th place with "Real People" and an episode of "One Day at a Time," also on CBS. Another installment of "One Day. at a Time" broadcast aT half-hour earlier was No.

19. In addition to the two NBC programs, the five lowest-rated shows included three from CBS: "Home to Stay" in 56th place, "The Incredible Hulk" 57th, and a movie, "The Little Prince." 59th. Friday night ratings fell 24 percent. July 4 was on a Wednesday in 1979. NBC had only one show, "Real People," among the week's 20 highest-rated, and that program finished in a three-way tie fob 20th.

In addition, NBC's second "Live from Studio 8H" production, "An Evening with Jerome Bobbins," finished in 60th place the week's lowest-rated program and a movie on the same network, "Music Man," was 58th. ABC snatched first place for the week from CBS by spotting four of the week's five highestrated programs. The two networks split the Top 10. "M-A-S-H" on CBS and ABC's "Three's Company" tied for first place for the week, trailed by three ABC shows "Hart to Hart," "Vegas" and "Taxi." Both "M-A-S-H" and "Three's Company" had ratings of 21.9. Nielsen says that means of all the homes in the country with television, 21.9 percent saw at least some of each of the two programs.

Only one original program was New York (AP) Summer viewing habits, competition between CBS and ABC and low ratings for several special programs apparently combined to help send NBC to the lowest point in the ratings for any network in nearly four years. NBC's rating for the week ending July 6 based on figures from the A.C. Nielsen Co. was 10.6, compared to 14.6 for ABC and 13.3 for CBS. The networks say that means in an average prime-time minute during the week, only 10.6 percent of the nation's TV-equipped homes were tuned to NBC.

ABC's first-place finish ended CBS' eight-week run as the No. 1 network in the weekly ratings competition. The rating of 10.6 was the lowest for any network since the third week in July 1976, when CBS scored a 10. NBC's rating that week was 10.6 and ABC's 14.6. Prime-time ratings normally are lower in the summer, and the long Fourth of July weekend pulled them down even further.

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WCIL-FM currently is operating at 3,000 of its usual 50,000 watt-signal after Sunday's storm knocked about 290 feet off the station's 300-foot tower. The AM station is operating at 250 watts of its full signal, he said. McRoy said the FM station probably is reaching an audience within a 15- to 20-mile radius of the station located on West Main Street. He expects the damage to cost the station about $50,000 as well as a $3,000 loss from the AM station's 150 background music customers who have been hearing nothing but static since Sunday. "There's no way to make up for losses of the background customers so we're just plain going to lose it (the revenue)," he said.

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