Dukakis Interview Tops Ratings
A 90-minute interview with Democratic presidential candidate Michael S. Dukakis on ABC’s “Nightline” Tuesday won the A. C. Nielsen Co. ratings by a substantial margin.
“Nightline” received a rating of 9.2 and a 31% share of the audience for the 90 minutes. That means it was watched in about 8 million homes. NBC’s “Tonight Show” and the first half-hour of “Late Night With David Letterman” received a rating of 4.8 and a 16% share. The CBS show “Nightheat” and the first half hour of “The CBS Late Show” got a 4.6 rating and a 15% share.
Get the L.A. Times Politics newsletter
Deeply reported insights into legislation, politics and policy from Sacramento, Washington and beyond. In your inbox three times per week.
You may occasionally receive promotional content from the Los Angeles Times.
