Tv ratings 1970s6/9/2023 So, in the name of broadcast history research (our motives are purely academic), let’s explore the top 5 Jiggle TV programs of the 1970s (and early 80s). Yes, shows like Baywatch kept the flame alive (becoming the most popular show on the planet, quite literally), but the heyday of Jiggle TV had sadly passed. I suppose this sort of gratuitous T&A for ratings was too much for the conservative minded Reagan era. And it kept jiggling well into the 80s, when it began to taper off. It was a formula that worked, no matter what the jealous competitors said. He was probably just jealous, because NBC wasn’t doing too well, and ABC’s newly termed Jiggle TV was raking in the audiences like mad. The term itself was coined by whiny-baby NBC exec, Paul Klein, slamming the T&A strategy over at ABC.
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