Good time to mention that 120 MILLION people watched the series finale of MASH.
To this day it's still in the top 10 of most viewed television events with the other being primarily sports events (e.g. Super Bowl etc)
To this day it's still in the top 10 of most viewed television events with the other being primarily sports events (e.g. Super Bowl etc)
1980 1,700 audiometer homes and a rotating board of nearly 850 diary respondents
1985 Nielsen meters TV viewing in more than 5,500 U.S. homes~2000 is a pretty decent sample size. The viewing numbers you should be skeptical about are the very small ones which will have huge error bars, not the huge ones.