SUPER BOWL SPOTS LEAVE 'EM LAUGHING.Byline: - Valerie Kuklenski Super Bowl XL viewers were most captivated cap·ti·vate tr.v. cap·ti·vat·ed, cap·ti·vat·ing, cap·ti·vates 1. To attract and hold by charm, beauty, or excellence. See Synonyms at charm. 2. Archaic To capture. by commercials that provoked laughter, according to TiVo, which kept score on which of the high-priced spots were replayed most often. The top two spots were by Ameriquest, the mortgage lender that urges clients not to ``judge too quickly,'' with a freakishly freak·ish adj. 1. Markedly unusual or abnormal; strange: freakish weather; a freakish combination of styles. 2. Relating to or being a freak: a freakish extra toe. awkward incident on a passenger plane and another about a hospital patient, a heart defibrillator defibrillator, device that delivers an electrical shock to the heart in order to stop certain forms of rapid heart rhythm disturbances (arrhythmias). The shock changes a fibrillation to an organized rhythm or changes a very rapid and ineffective cardiac rhythm to a and a pesky fly. Budweiser's freshly shorn sheep streaking through a football game among Clydesdales placed third, followed by the FedEx cavemen spot and Michelob's touch football game. SOMETHING TO CHEER ABOUT: ABC ABC in full American Broadcasting Co. Major U.S. television network. It began when the expanding national radio network NBC split into the separate Red and Blue networks in 1928. was every bit as happy Monday morning as the Pittsburgh Steelers' fans, crowing about having the most-watched Super Bowl since 1996 with 90.7 million viewers, according to Nielsen's fast nationals results. The network reported that 141.4 million watched six minutes or more of Sunday's game, which garnered a 62 percent share of households watching television. Sunday's audience was 5 percent greater than the 86.1 million people who watched the New England Patriots  Editing of this page by unregistered or newly registered users is currently disabled until (UTC) due to vandalism. beat the Philadelphia Eagles last year on Fox. When the Dallas Cowboys beat the Steelers in 1996, there were 94.1 million people watching. The Steelers beat the Seahawks 21-10, but the game wasn't really decided until the final five minutes or so, which helped keep the audience glued to the set, said Larry Hyams, ABC research executive. Viewer enthusiasm spilled over to hot drama ``Grey's Anatomy,'' which held 38.1 million viewers through an episode in which a patient in the operating room is found to have a live bazooka bazooka, in warfare, portable, lightweight metal tube from which rockets are launched, usually operated by two men. It is used by infantry as an antitank weapon and also for attacking pillboxes and bunkers. shell inside him. The special ``Grey's'' telecast is the most watched entertainment program this season. DARK STORY: The PBS PBS in full Public Broadcasting Service Private, nonprofit U.S. corporation of public television stations. PBS provides its member stations, which are supported by public funds and private contributions rather than by commercials, with educational, cultural, series ``Frontline'' tonight looks at the growing problem of sex slavery, taking viewers inside the trade of hundreds of thousands of women and children who are preyed upon by traffickers promising a brighter future in a new country. Since the fall of communism, Moldova and Ukraine have emerged as sources for the victims of this booming organized crime, and their destinations include Europe, the Middle East and the United States. The show includes a warning that it contains adult situations and is not appropriate for children. FRONTLINE: SEX SLAVES, 9 tonight, KCET KCET Konami Computer Entertainment Tokyo (Japan) KCET Kamaraj College of Engineering and Technology . CAPTION(S): 2 photos Photo: (1) Some 90.7 million Super Bowl viewers were able to stomach the sight of Mick Jagger's bare belly as the aging rocker performed during Sunday's halftime show in Detroit. Mark J. Terrill/Associated Press (2) no caption (sheep) |
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