Television World

The Ratings Business (1x1)

: 15, 1979

American entertainment television, transmitted coast-to-coast, is the product of a fierce battle for profits between the big three networks. How do these pressures operate, and how do they affect the programmes - and the audience? With Mike Dann, Herminio Traviesas, Norman Lear, George Gerbner, Don Roberts, Bob Liebert and two American families