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JAY
BY MARIO GONZALEZ
ABC suffering from poor ratings
The Associated Press
LOS ANGELES — When a speech by President Bush fell on a crucial television ratings night, NBC decided to stick with its high-flying Friends, and CBS picked Survivor instead of the address.
ABC bumped a show in favor of the president, but no sacrifice was involved. The Nov. 8 speech drew a bigger audience than the network has been getting from Whose Line Is It Anyway? in that time slot.
When a network receives more ratings help from the White House than its programming, it might be a sign that something is wrong.
By just about every measure of success in the 2001-02 season so far, ABC is earning the kind of grades that could get the average kid grounded.
Among the four major broadcast networks, including CBS, NBC and Fox, Walt Disney Co.
Judgment calls, bad luck and a bad case of overdependence on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire have undermined the network, which was No.1 in the 1999-2000 season and No.2 last year.
owned ABC is last in household ratings, according to Nielsen Media Research figures for the new season's first seven weeks.
"To date, ABC has very little to be happy about," said Paul Schulman, president of the New York office of Advanswers PHD, a media buying firm.
When the quiz show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire was riding high in the ratings in multiple weekly airings, ABC soared with it. But then the show abruptly lost its charm, with painful results. The show was averaging 17 million viewers per episode at this point last year. This year, it's at 10.7 million, a drop of 37 percent, according to Nielsen.
"They had the hottest show on the air and were really cocky about it. They clogged up their prime-time real estate, didn't plan ahead and shot themselves right in the foot," said Marc Berman, a rating analyst with Media Week.
ABC's erosion in the bleak position of having to offer "make goods" to advertisers, the free commercial time due when a show attracts a smaller audience than promised.
"They made the worst programming moves for their established series since fall 1979," contends Berman. That was the year the network shifted Mork & Mindy, Laverne & Shirley and Fantasy Island and, he says, "almost killed them."
This season's returning shows jugged by ABC and suffering in the ratings include Once and Again, Spin City, Dharma & Greg and The Mole II, which has already been pulled from the schedule.
When it comes to new shows, fortune has frowned on ABC and others. The networks have cited the effect of terrorism and its aftermath on viewer willingness to try the unfamiliar.
According to Jim and the returning My Wife and Kids are part of a strategy to attract the younger viewers who once flocked to ABC for sitcoms including Home Improvement and Roseanne.
"We have some really strong comedies, and it's energizing to look and say 'OK, this is where we are, but now let's just embrace it, redefine ourselves, go back to some of our core values of family comedies.'" Bloomberg said.
Crossword
ACROSS
1 Wound trace
2 Botanist Gray
8 Makes points
14 Seep
15 "Iron John" author
16 Church officials
17 Stringed instrument
18 Sat, follower
19 Pitcher Grant
20 Like some sweaters
22 Kind of nut
23 Engraving
24 Credit
27 "Invisible" bomber?
29 Capture
30 Social status pretenders
34 Exploit
35 Josip Broz
36 Do road work
37 Indiana senator
39 Presently
40 Yemeni port
41 Afore
42 Furious
43 Knight's title
44 Interrogate after a mission
47 Eyelash cosmetic
48 Subtle shades of meaning
49 Gain access to a computer
55 Miserly Ebenezer
56 Retaliate for another
58 Fifth of scale
59 Fiber source
60 Feudal lords
61 Yale student
62 Boys
63 Bring in goods from abroad
64 Marry
65 Otherwise
DOWN
1 Figure out
2 Title for Dracula
3 Mexican empire of old
4 Type of tree
5 Not present
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6 Ooozy deposit
7 "Atlas Shrugged"
author Rand
8 School term
9 Hold tightly
10 More unusual
11 Lying down
12 Notable period
13 Fast flier: abbr.
21 Smack
22 Model airplane
wood
25 Ulan ___
Mongolia
26 Dark hardwood
28 Boring tool
30 Involuntary
contraction
31 Gymnast
Cormaneci
32 Wake up late
33 Hogan or
Crenshaw
35 Light brown
37 Most suspicious
38 Of a city
42 Distant
Solutions to yesterday's puzzle
44 Short, pointed weapon
45 Shoe part
46 Greek geometrician
48 Zaire, today
50 Aristocrat
51 Reef material
52 Yikes!
53 Feel
54 "___ Baba and the
55 40 Thieves"
57 __ and vigor
58 in sitches
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