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Football and the second Republican presidential debate dominated the week's ratings, won by NBC on the strength of its Sunday night football game. That game also cut into viewing of the annual Emmy Awards, with For the week in prime time, NBC averaged 8. ESPN was the most-watched cable network in prime time, averaging 4.

CNN had 3. NBC's "Nightly News" topped the evening newscasts with an average of 8 million viewers. ABC's "World News" was second with 7. For the week of Sept. We lived in a square-foot home, with a TV set that blared a nonstop parade of judge shows, talk shows and dopey low-budget sitcoms featuring adults dressed as school kids. The telenovelas were better than American soap operas because the action was faster, even if the only relatively brown people seemed to be dutiful housekeepers and, of course, the humble priest.

Mercifully, unlike their slower-paced American brethren, they also were finite. Suddenly I turned into Mom or Dad — preachy, lecturing. Surely he would agree with me. Sure, English-language TV had some staring-into-the-abyss shows, but you could always switch the channel and easily escape them — especially if you could afford cable. Aside from some excellent news programs, Spanish-language programming seemed like a constant march of lowest common denominator programming.

To some, it was just good old-fashioned entertainment. I found the jokes at best corny, and at worst, buffoonish. Vaya con dios. And I hope the many people who toiled behind the scenes can find employment elsewhere. Things are tough. Twitter: hbecerralatimes.

He started his career at the Los Angeles Times in , and was a general assignment reporter until , covering everything from wildfires to crime to Latino cultural trends. In more than 40 countries, every Saturday night, generations of families, from abuelos to grandkids, gathered around the tube to watch together.

The following year the network was relaunched as Spanish-language U. When appropriate, the show took a serious tone. Facebook Twitter Email.