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Show . 1 TV TATTLE Directory wins award "The Complete Directory ol Prime Time Network TV Shows (1946-Present)," b Earle Marsh and Tim Brooks has been honored with an American Book Award in the category of General Reference Refer-ence Paperback. The 848-page 848-page compendium contains complete descriptive data on more than 2,500 shows, every nighttime network series from 1946 through the 1978-79 season. Marsh works for CBS, and Brooks is at NBC. Source of dispute According to the 1980 .Virginia .Vir-ginia Slims American Women's Opinion Poll, 21 percent per-cent of the women surveyed named watching television as one of the more common sources of disagreement with their mates. Only how to spend money (30 percent) and how to deal with children (22 percent) were cited more often. Across the board, women wom-en cited watching television as their most popular pastime; among married women, watching television is second only to spending time with their spouse. Sixty-three percent of all the women surveyed sur-veyed said they watch television televi-sion frequently, with two hours, 55 minutes being the average time spent in front of f the set daily. Regionally, the 1 greatest numbers of women 1 who watch television are in , the South (66 percent), and the 1 fewest in the West (58 ; percent). Big city dwellers watch telelvision in larger numbers (70 percent) than ; surburbanites (57 percent). Olympics prep a plus NBC's three years of preparation prepa-ration for coverage of the 1980 Summer Olympics has not been in vain, since residual residu-al effects of these plans- will' stand NBC Sports in good stead for the competitiave decade ahead, says Don Ohlmeyer, executive producer of NBC Sports. "Planning for Moscow gave us a concrete goal to work toward," he said. "It gave us a focus for improvement that translates to everything we put on the air. It's that improvement that enabled NBC Sports to garner four of the nine production pro-duction Emmys presented last year and more nominations than the other two networks combined. This production expertise will carry over into the '80s." |
