Here’s an unusual image spot for CBS announcing the fact that CBS has been “America’s No. 1 Network for 17 Years In A Row.”
Unfortunately, I don’t know when this spot is from and the fine print is mostly illegible due to the low quality of the video.
Last year, CBS finished the 2023-24 TV season with the most viewers in prime time for the 16th year in a row, breaking its own record of 15 seasons from 1955-1970. That suggests this spot is not promoting prime time viewership. Perhaps CBS had viewing figures for the entire day. The fine print seems to include the phrase “calendar year” and “average minute” which could be what CBS based its claim on.
I recall seeing similar CBS “record breaking” ads on CBS in either 1972 or 1973. Up until that time we’d had an old black-and-white TV with only one VHF dial, allowing us to only see a local NBC station. But early in the 1970s the old TV finally died and we got a fancy new color set (with knobs on the back to adjust the color settings) that had two dials, so we could see not only channels 2 – 13, but fancy higher numbered channels, that included CBS and ABC channels.
absurd this one……….**..if its not a poor-mans take on Zasu Pitts..? …. I don’t know.. I had mentioned earlier that CBS.. corp had its ego bruised in those late 1970s….NBC and powerful universal studio’s made == for television movies cleaned up with better attention…*..so ever dated now….I’m waiting for cbs to go belly up someday soon///I see red!
CBS has been the only real broadcast network for a while now. NBC and ABC haven’t been putting in the effort. FOX is almost all reality/game shows now. CBS has the most dramas, although almost all of them are police/mystery dramas.