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I guess it is my age ....

Posted by: jdm 04:06 pm EST 12/06/13
In reply to: Bottom line from Playbill: "The Sound of Music Live! Is Ratings Smash for NBC" - MikeR 11:28 am EST 12/06/13
and the fact that there are hundreds of channels now. But I have to suppress wonderment that this size audience and ratings are considered good. Growing up, "special event programming" - like the MASH finale, or Roots - would get 70 million, sometimes 120 million viewers. And the U.S. population was maybe 100 million or so less. When I was at an ad agency, ratings like this would be dismal. :-)

Again, I DO know the situation is different these days, the "new normal" .

But importantly, I do hope something like this could be an annual thing.

Jim


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