21.   All of this contributed to very low television ratings at the dual Reform Party conventions in Long Beach, Calif., and Valley Forge, Pa., in August.

22.   But by the end of the regular season, both attendance and television ratings were down only marginally.

23.   But then those prime-time television ratings have never made much sense either.

24.   But the early guess here is television ratings and attendance will show they have succeeded beyond their wildest hopes.

25.   But they would do little for declining television ratings in the United States.

26.   CBS has surged to second place in the prime-time television ratings this fall, after being mired in third place last year.

27.   Concerned about poor television ratings, the members of the Bowl Alliance will fiddle with starting times and dates next season.

28.   Crowds were small , television ratings were bad.

29.   Even though he tied for second, four strokes behind Phil Mickelson, the television ratings were higher than for the NBA All-Star Game.

30.   Extremism in pursuit of television ratings is no vice.