A weekly TV program’s 71.3 percent season-average audience share remains an unsurpassed record

Evidence

In 1953, the show attracted an astonishing average 71.3 percent of audiences, and as an average for an entire season, that figure remains unsurpassed. — Tim Wu, The Attention Merchants, 448

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