21.   Regardless, ABC is banking on the new Monday night crew to boost sagging ratings.

22.   Sexual tension between characters can boost ratings.

23.   Since NBC was televising the event, the peacock network was going to do everything it could to spread the word and boost ratings.

24.   Television soaps and movies-of-the-week long ago have boosted ratings by dramatizing once-scandalous behavior.

25.   The change was instituted by Churchill Downs to accommodate ESPN in an effort to boost ratings.

26.   The banter may have boosted ratings, but it sheared as much as a minute off the precious two to four minutes allotted to weather.

27.   The company announced yesterday at a sales and affiliates conference that it was revamping its prime-time schedule to boost ratings.

28.   The pact offers WB a chance to boost TV ratings that have lagged leaders NBC, CBS, ABC and Fox.

29.   The NHL and the union want the players to be model citizens at an event the league is hoping will boost television ratings and generate interest in the sport.

30.   The pairing backfired, as the twosome failed to boost news ratings and eventually came to resemble warring soap opera spouses.