European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 19, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Limbaugh showing More ratings muscle from wire reports a. R ush Limbaugh must be sick a no tired of Reading All that puffery about David Letterman every where which might explain Why his show has been flooding fax machines with press releases about How the Rush Limbaugh show is the hottest show in the universe. Or at least hotter than the other late night shows. A has an average 3.8 rating through the end of november compared to a 3 rating Over the same period last year when it premi amp red sept. 14. That As Rush May or May not say ainu to Chicken noodles. Quot people Are beginning to find him even though some stations have not put him in great time periods Quot says Roger Ailes the shows producer. Quot if he had Leno and Letterman a time periods head be no. 1, no question. I. In fairness Letterman a publicity went up 30 percent but rushes ratings went up 30  More Rush news Limbaugh appeared on letter Many a show Friday night. Oddly enough Howard Stern appeared on the tonight show with Jay Leno the same night. Vietnam spotlight Abc news president Roone Arledge tuesday postponed until january the Day one broadcast of a return by correspondent Jack Smith to the la Drang Valley in Vietnam saying the powerful footage deserved a bigger audience than it would get during the nil season. The Day one show originally scheduled to run monday night takes Smith Back to the site of a 1965 Battle in which the army private was severely wounded and 95 percent of his comrades in an infantry company were also casualties. Later than  to Abc news confirms that there has been talk about giving Jeff Greenfield a show that would follow Ted Koppel and nightlife in late night. Greenfield the onetime Robert Kennedy aide has become one of the two or three Best political analysts on network to. Speaking of Koppel the National enquirer says there a a Quot secret lbs plan to replace pan rather and Connie Chung with the tester Quot sometime after the Start of the new  More chances thirteen More episodes of Connie Sci Leccas a second chances on lbs 53rd in the ratings last week have been ordered. Connie Vellecca and Michelle Phillips Star in the new series second chances Abc David Caruso is on target with Sherry Stringfield in Nype Blue which opened this season on Abc for Gore Moore by Rick do brow los Angeles times merry Christmas to David Letterman for his stunning Early ratings bolting past the tonight show with his new lbs series. Can he keep it lip Angie Dickinson for saying no to a this is your life taping and walking out on the show Dan rather a for the to quote of the year telling president Clinton via satellite at a lbs affiliates meeting with co Anchor Connie Chung Quot or. President if we could be one Hundredth As great As you and Hillary Rodham Clinton have been together wed take it right now and walk away  Brett Butler a for saying before her new sitcom Grace under fire took off like a shot that if it failed a a in a gainfully employed in a seedy and sophomoric Industry called  dateline Abc a for almost destroying the networks news credibility with its admission of faking a fiery crash of a pm truck a one of the great boners in to history. Lindsay Wagner a Mercedes and Bow must be drooling Over her Ford commercials. Algore a the most improved politician in to effectiveness As the vice president demonstrated when he loosened up and was All Over Ross Perot in their Naftal debate on the Larry King show Peg Phillips a you know her a the free spirited elderly Ruth Anne Miller on Northern expo sure. One of the Best older role models on to. Jack Paar would have used her As a regular. Abc a for the dumbest title change of the year renaming soldering lust a private Eye series spoof Black tie affair which had nothing to do with anything on the show. Mary Tyler Moore the daily prime Lime reruns of her classic show on Nick at Nite Are stir tvs a Best series. The emmy awards a for accomplishing the impossible a going through the entire show As if those three Amy Fisher movies were not a part of network to last season. Angela Lansbury was a Good Host but the programs polite end to end puffery was a fake image of the Down and dirty business that the Public knows too Well to be fooled. And the ratings showed it. Oprah Winfrey would abcs Peter Jennings be such a runaway pacesetter if Winfrey a potent talk show did no to provide a Blastoff late afternoon Lead in for the evening news blocks ii some of the network s key stations. Carroll of Connor for quietly professionally employing ongoing interracial stories in his lbs series in the heat of the night. To honchos a How responsive would they have been of Dan Quayle had criticized violence on television. Lbs a things arc Tough when you have to get be Hind the Nanny. Chevy Chase a for getting out fast. But Why did no to Fox show some creative clout when the disaster was shaping up Walter Cronkite a another network loss to Cable where he a turning out meaty document a pics. Hard to believe lbs simply let him slip away. Ross Perot of so he lost the Naftal do Bate to vice president Gore but somebody ought to find a to spot for the Guy to pop off regularly on government doings. He s a television natural even on his off Days. Susan Dey a love left War in t any better or worse without her and i Don t buy the rap that she supposedly Isnit so great at comedy. Joe Montana and Marcus Allen for proving that old Guys can jump and that you can make the Kansas City chiefs interesting. They re the most exciting one two football punch on to. Seinfeld a i know it has something i know its funny but in a still trying to really warm up to it. Or. Quinn Medicine  i know it has something i know Jane Seymour is hot stuff on to but i wish they would take All those warm cud Illy stories a step further dramatically. David Caruso and Kelsey Grammer a for their worthy performances a Caruso in the Best new drama Nype Blue and grammar in the Best new comedy frasier. Sinbad a will somebody at Fox find this Guy a great property he a a heavyweight trapped in a bantamweight sitcom. Johnny Carson still the Champ even in Semi retirement. Molly Dodd a wherever you Are Here a looking at you kid. 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