mash finale-related stories
Posted Jul 9th 2007 10:30AM by Jay Black
Filed under: OpEd, TV 101

When I was in college I heard my favorite author of all time, Kurt Vonnegut, give a speech that included a quaint (and wrongheaded) defense of snail mail. He went on and on about the wonderfulness of buying a stamp and putting pen to paper -- all that stuff that makes sense when you're dealing with your thirtieth Erectile Dysfunction spam of the day, but which falls apart the second you want to send a picture of your cool new scar to all of your friends at once (or similarly important things).
Well, here I am at thirty about to do what Vonnegut did at my college. A silly and wrongheaded argument for something that I know in my heart we're all better without. I always knew I'd follow in Vonnegut's footsteps as a writer...
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Posted Feb 7th 2006 2:25PM by Joel Keller
Filed under: Sports, ABC, Industry, OpEd, TV Sports, Watercooler Talk

This is why I've always taken a network's ratings
claims with a huge grain of salt: According to this
AP
article, Super Bowl XL was seen in 45.85 million homes, second only to the 1983 finale of
M*A*S*H in the
history of TV. However, the rating itself, 41.6, was only up slightly from last year's game (probably because a rating
point represents more homes than it did last year or in 1983). Also the share, which measures the percentage of TVs in
use, remained the same at 62.
Got all that? But wait, there's more...
Continue reading Super Bowl XL households second only to M*A*S*H finale? WTF?