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LOS ANGELES - More people are watching older TV comedy sitcoms as opposed to newer shows amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic because it makes viewers feel nostalgic, according to Nielsen.
At the onset of the pandemic, millions of people were forced to stay home and take advantage of TV entertainment to keep from going stir crazy and many of those people resorted to older TV comedies.
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Stories about how DJs have turned underdog records into smash hits are legion, but few hitmaking radio pros have as long a legacy as Gary Guthrie. In 1978, when Guthrie was the program director for Louisville pop station WAKY, he noticed something uncanny: Two ’70s superstars, Neil Diamond and Barbra Streisand, had each recorded a version of “You Don’t Bring Me Flowers” and issued them on their own separate LPs, six months apart. But “Flowers,” a lament for a fading romance that Diamond himself co-wrote, wasn’t issued as a single, by him or by Streisand. So Guthrie created his own: He spliced together Diamond’s and Streisand’s separate recordings, which had similar arrangements and were even sung in the same key, into a single duet. Given the primitive technology of the day no computers, no ProTools the ease with which the recordings blended was remarkable. Guthrie tried it out on the air, and WAKY was inundated with requests for the phantom single. After the choppe