Dense on-land and sea-floor networks of geophysical monitoring instruments able to detect any potential movement of tremor and slow slip toward the locked and primed portion of the plate boundary fault.
During its broadcast of the prime-time portion of the exciting game, the network drew an average of 33.95 million viewers.
Nielsen estimated that the prime-time portion of the "American Idol" special, which began its broadcast at 7 30 p.m., attracted 17.6 million viewers from 8to1010 p.m.
Television ratings for the first night of the Republican National Convention indicated that only a small fraction of the total television audience watched the prime-time portion of the event.
In national ratings released Friday by the Fox network, Thursday night's game averaged – for its prime-time portion — a 5.6 rating in the 18 to 49 audience that is the standard for much of television advertising.
Nicholas P. Heymann, an analyst at Sterne, Agee & Leach who follows G.E., said that the consistently ineffective efforts to rebuild the prime-time portion of the NBC network might have led G.E. to begin thinking it was time to exit the entertainment business.
The prime-time portion of the spectacle was devised to play down race and highlight Mr. Obama's presidential stature: Stevie Wonder sang "Signed, Sealed, Delivered I'm Yours," but a group of retired generals and Susan Eisenhower, a Russian affairs expert who is the granddaughter of President Dwight D. Eisenhower, waxed lyrical about the senator's readiness for the Oval Office.
Still, the Robertsons' names made the news during the recent election cycle as Phil became Ted Cruz's lone celebrity supporter before shifting his endorsement to Donald Trump, and family business CEO Willie Robertson opened the prime-time portion of the first night of the Republican National Convention. .
The prime-time portions of the Republican Convention sessions are self-contained one hour blocks.
Now the sponsor of those instruments, the Americus Shareowner Service Corporation, plans to offer similar investments for all 30 stocks that make up the Dow Jones industrial average, dubbing the dividend portion Primes and the rest Scores.
