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From: kalucki@charm.UUCP (John Kalucki)
Newsgroups: net.tv
Subject: Diff'rent Strokes moving to ABC
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Date: Tue, 27-Aug-85 11:33:46 EDT
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In article <2283@ut-ngp.UTEXAS> sunil@ut-ngp.UTEXAS (Sunil Trivedi) writes:
>Anyone know about the planned move of Diff'rent Strokes from NBC to ABC?
>How were the ratings of the show?  Does it have anything to do with Gary
>Coleman's age?

I used to be a regular reader of "Broadcasting, the Fifth Estate". One
of the writers for this magazine (which seems to be one of the bibles
of the broadcasting industry, or so my Station Manager seems to think)
said that ABC needed to pick up Diff'rent Strokes BECAUSE it constantly
got average ratings. NBC wants to drop the dead weight, ABC will do anything
for "average" ratings to help boost is sagging line up. (Does anyone
out there in net-land even watch ABC? :-> )

	John Kalucki
	...!ihnp4!charm!kalucki will get mail to me.

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