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Funny is funny, whether you have three cameras or one.
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Cameras
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The only way to stop the erosion in network television is to come up with shows that are very popular.
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Erosion
Network
Network Television
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I was the King of Twinkie-Vision one day, the King of Jiggle TV the next, thanks to Farrah Fawcett and 'Three's Company.'
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Thanks
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The kind of audience that watches 'Matlock' is ideal for a lead-in to the affiliates' newscast in the afternoon. That audience is older.
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Afternoon
Watches
Affiliates
Ideal
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I didn't even think demographics until I got to ABC. They were the first to go for 18-to-49. But, at CBS, it was just, 'Let's get 'em in the tent.'
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Demographics
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Cbs
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Succeeding in network prime time has gotten tougher. Every day, several thousand homes are wired for cable, and more people are buying videodisks and video cassettes. That all represents competition.
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Buying
Prime Time
Thousand
Video
Cable
Gotten
Homes
More People
Network
Several
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You acquire certain tastes. And if your taste happens to coincide with the majority of people, then you're in pretty good shape. But you're not always right. There were times when I stubbed my toe, and some will end up being on my tombstone - like 'Supertrain.'
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Acquire
Majority
Taste
Tombstone
Good Always Your
Good People End
Coincide
Good Happens Always
Good Shape
Pretty Good
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Toe
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The first sales meeting I made was for the television movie 'Farrell for the People.' I walked into a conference room at NBC that I had built. It was my memorial conference room. There were 10 people at the meeting, and by habit, I sat at the head of the table.
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Habit
Nbc
Conference
For The People
Meeting
Sales
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There seems to be a vulnerability at the networks in late night. They are losing more and more audience, particularly young viewers who are now looking at cable television. 'Tonight' is an old show. CBS has reruns, and having a public affairs series like 'Nightline' on ABC is a big mistake.
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Big Mistake
Public Affairs
Reruns
Tonight
Viewers
Vulnerability
Abc
Affairs
Cable
Cbs
Networks
More And More
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You find a personality whom you think the TV audience will embrace and find a format that is tailor-made for the personality. In the case of Andy Griffith, we moved the personality of a wily country shark - a funny and shrewd guy - into another arena. In this case, he is a lawyer, and it is a dramatic series.
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Arena
Dramatic
Embrace
Format
Andy
Shark
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