http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com Tue, 14 Feb 2012 23:53:33 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com http://tvbythenumbers.com/favicon.ico http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2010/12/22/years-top-10-most-watched-tv-programs-lead-by-super-bowl-xliv-american-idol/76415/ http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2010/12/22/years-top-10-most-watched-tv-programs-lead-by-super-bowl-xliv-american-idol/76415/#comments Wed, 22 Dec 2010 17:15:55 +0000 Bill Gorman http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/?p=76415 Everybody loves top 10 lists!]]> http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2010/12/22/years-top-10-most-watched-tv-programs-lead-by-super-bowl-xliv-american-idol/76415/feed/ 30 http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2008/06/07/we-look-back-at-the-top-tv-shows-of-1960/4053/ http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2008/06/07/we-look-back-at-the-top-tv-shows-of-1960/4053/#comments Sat, 07 Jun 2008 08:14:59 +0000 Bill Gorman http://tvbythenumbers.com/?p=4053 1960: John F. Kennedy and Richard M. Nixon debate live in the first Presidential debates to be broadcast on television. It's also the first year that television is broadcast in New Zealand. Notable TV premieres of the year: My Three Sons (ABC), The Flintstones (ABC), and The Andy Griffith Show (CBS). Notable TV finales of the year: [...]]]> http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2008/06/07/we-look-back-at-the-top-tv-shows-of-1960/4053/feed/ 5 http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2008/05/31/we-look-back-at-the-top-tv-shows-of-1987/3984/ http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2008/05/31/we-look-back-at-the-top-tv-shows-of-1987/3984/#comments Sat, 31 May 2008 07:58:39 +0000 Bill Gorman http://tvbythenumbers.com/?p=3984 1987: The Fox TV Network makes its prime-time debut. Notable TV premieres of the year: Married With Children... (Fox), Full House (ABC), A Different World (NBC), and thirtysomething (ABC). Notable TV finales of the year: The A-Team (1983-87), Remington Steele (1982-87), Fame (1982-87), and Hill Street Blues (1981-87). Top 20 Prime Time Broadcast Programs, September 1986- April 1987:   RANK PROGRAM [...]]]> http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2008/05/31/we-look-back-at-the-top-tv-shows-of-1987/3984/feed/ 4 http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2008/05/24/we-look-back-at-the-top-tv-shows-of-1967/3891/ http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2008/05/24/we-look-back-at-the-top-tv-shows-of-1967/3891/#comments Sat, 24 May 2008 08:35:46 +0000 Bill Gorman http://tvbythenumbers.com/?p=3891 1967: The inagural Super Bowl is telecast on both CBS and NBC. The Rolling Stones appear on The Ed Sullivan Show. In an event that predates the birth of most Jericho fans, as well as their 21st century escapades: the long-running western Gunsmoke is renewed for the fall 1967 season, after widespread viewer protest. After CBS planned [...]]]> http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2008/05/24/we-look-back-at-the-top-tv-shows-of-1967/3891/feed/ 33 http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2008/05/17/we-look-back-at-the-top-tv-shows-of-1997/3697/ http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2008/05/17/we-look-back-at-the-top-tv-shows-of-1997/3697/#comments Sat, 17 May 2008 08:47:19 +0000 Bill Gorman http://tvbythenumbers.com/2008/05/10/we-look-back-at-the-top-tv-shows-of-1977/3697 1997: The Simpsons passes The Flintstones as the longest running prime-time animated series. Bryant Gumbel leaves the Today Show. Notable TV premieres of the year: South Park (Comedy Central), King of the Hill (Fox), Just Shoot Me! (NBC), Buffy The Vampire Slayer (WB), Ally McBeal (Fox). Notable TV finales of the year: Married...With Children, Martin, [...]]]> http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2008/05/17/we-look-back-at-the-top-tv-shows-of-1997/3697/feed/ 7 http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2008/05/03/we-look-back-at-the-top-tv-shows-of-1962/3573/ http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2008/05/03/we-look-back-at-the-top-tv-shows-of-1962/3573/#comments Sat, 03 May 2008 08:04:37 +0000 Bill Gorman http://tvbythenumbers.com/2008/05/03/we-look-back-at-the-top-tv-shows-of-1962/3573 1962: Walter Cronkite becomes the anchor of The CBS Evening News. Johnny Carson takes over as the host of The Tonight Show. The Rose Bowl is the first coast to coast color television broadcast of a college football game. 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Fox News Channel overtook CNN as the #1 cable news [...]]]> http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2008/04/26/we-look-back-at-the-top-tv-shows-of-2002/3513/feed/ 10 http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2008/04/19/we-look-back-at-the-top-tv-shows-of-1972/3408/ http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2008/04/19/we-look-back-at-the-top-tv-shows-of-1972/3408/#comments Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:04:49 +0000 Bill Gorman http://tvbythenumbers.com/2008/04/19/we-look-back-at-the-top-tv-shows-of-1972/3408 1972, HBO was launched. Notable TV premieres of the year: Sanford & Son (NBC), Emergency! (NBC), Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids (CBS), The Bob Newhart Show (CBS), M*A*S*H (CBS), Kung Fu (ABC), The Waltons (CBS), and Maude (CBS). It's the year that TV Guide stops using a "C" to denote color programs and begins [...]]]> http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2008/04/19/we-look-back-at-the-top-tv-shows-of-1972/3408/feed/ 44 http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2008/04/13/we-look-back-at-the-top-tv-shows-of-1992/3311/ http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2008/04/13/we-look-back-at-the-top-tv-shows-of-1992/3311/#comments Sun, 13 Apr 2008 17:23:15 +0000 Bill Gorman http://tvbythenumbers.com/2008/04/13/we-look-back-at-the-top-tv-shows-of-1992/3311 1992, The Redskins defeated the Buffalo Bills in Super Bowl XXVI, the Seinfeld episode "The Contest" airs, SciFi Channel launched with a broadcast of Star Wars, Cartoon Network launches in the US, Barney & Friends, Melrose Place and Dateline NBC all premiere, Jay Leno becomes host of the Tonight Show, and these were the top [...]]]> http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2008/04/13/we-look-back-at-the-top-tv-shows-of-1992/3311/feed/ 10 http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2008/04/04/we-look-back-at-the-top-tv-shows-of-1982/3203/ http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2008/04/04/we-look-back-at-the-top-tv-shows-of-1982/3203/#comments Sat, 05 Apr 2008 06:24:30 +0000 Bill Gorman http://tvbythenumbers.com/2008/04/04/we-look-back-at-the-top-tv-shows-of-1982/3203 1982, AT&T agrees to break itself up, the 49ers beat the Bengals in Super Bowl 16, the Weather Channel airs for the very first time on cable, the first compact discs (CDs) appear in Germany, Cal Ripken plays in the *first* game of his record breaking string, Knight Rider makes its first appearance in the [...]]]> http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2008/04/04/we-look-back-at-the-top-tv-shows-of-1982/3203/feed/ 14