The premiere marked the fourth Nickelodeon telecast in 2008 to move to the top of basic cable among total viewers, as well as handily ranking as number-one on broadcast and cable television among kids 2-11, 6-11 and teens 9-14.
But Democrats clearly saw those comments, and the one broadcast Monday, as missteps they could exploit, much as Mr. Bush has attacked Mr. Kerry's remark that he would have authorized the president to invade Iraq if he had known then what he knows now about Iraq's weapons.
The show has returned with its original cast for two specials in recent years, the last one broadcast this summer as part of the BBC's India season, with at least one well-aimed jab at the postcolonial telly obsession with Indian railways.
The Kenyan ban on "Andi Mack" could have greater implications for the show's viewership in Africa at large, as many channel distributors have one broadcast feed for the entire continent, Variety reports. .
On average a prime-time ad on a cable network costs a marketer one-third as much as on broadcast on a cost-per-thousand basis.
Of course, that signal is limited, as users are only able to stream one broadcast channel at a time.
One broadcast in particular struck me.
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SpongeBob SquarePants was ranked as the number-one program on broadcast and basic cable in April and scored the number-one telecast, "SpongeBob's Last Stand", with kids 2-11 for the month.
As one early radio broadcast intoned, "Strike up the band! Bob Hope's the man / Who ties the cans to woe!" Hope was the fifth of six boys, whose parents, even before they emigrated, had been floundering for a decade.
