{"id":297709,"date":"2010-02-09T12:04:22","date_gmt":"2010-02-09T17:04:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.popcrunch.com\/?p=92438"},"modified":"2010-02-09T12:04:22","modified_gmt":"2010-02-09T17:04:22","slug":"alan-alda-graceful-as-super-bowl-xliv-smashes-mash-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/297709","title":{"rendered":"Alan Alda Graceful As Super Bowl XLIV Smashes M*A*S*H Record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday&#8217;s Super Bowl surpassed <em>M*A*S*H&#8217;s<\/em> 1983 series finale as the Most Watched TV Program of All Time. According to Nielsen, 106.5 million viewers watched this weekend&#8217;s game on CBS, as opposed to the 105.97 million viewers that watched the <em>M*A*S*H<\/em> farewell&#8211; at a time when far fewer homes had television sets. So how does Alan Alda &#8212; who played Benjamin &#8220;Hawkeye&#8221; Pierce on the iconic comedy &#8212;  feel about having the New Orleans Saints marching all over <em>M*A*S*H&#8217;s<\/em> 27-year-old record?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.popcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Super-Bowl-Smashes-MASH-Record.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Super-Bowl-Smashes-MASH-Record\" width=\"489\" height=\"640\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-92439\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;I&#8217;m happy for New Orleans,&#8221;<\/em> he told <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/02\/09\/sports\/football\/09sandomir.html\">The New York Times<\/a><\/em> Monday. <em>&#8220;I want to see that city come out first in every way that it can, even if it means giving up a record that &#8216;M*A*S*H&#8217; held for a long time.&#8221; <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Nonetheless, Alda couldn&#8217;t help but wonder how accurate the numbers really are: <em>&#8220;I know it sounds evil to mention, but how does Nielsen know how many actual people were watching either broadcast?&#8221;<\/em> he asked. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/791_qlNQqgTwrtNzfpHfmadLrZ0\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/791_qlNQqgTwrtNzfpHfmadLrZ0\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/791_qlNQqgTwrtNzfpHfmadLrZ0\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/791_qlNQqgTwrtNzfpHfmadLrZ0\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday&#8217;s Super Bowl surpassed M*A*S*H&#8217;s 1983 series finale as the Most Watched TV Program of All Time. According to Nielsen, 106.5 million viewers watched this weekend&#8217;s game on CBS, as opposed to the 105.97 million viewers that watched the M*A*S*H farewell&#8211; at a time when far fewer homes had television sets. So how does Alan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5335,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-297709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5335"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297709\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}