Despite the time constraints, CBS was pleased with the way Bakshi Productions addressed the network's notes.

Despite proving to be a ratings hit, staying in the top twenty for its first four seasons, Green Acres along with another sister show, The Beverly Hillbillies, were cancelled in 1971 in the CBS network's infamous " rural purge "— an attempt to attract a younger viewer demographic, as most viewers of the series were at least 40 years old.

Despite the slight downturn in the network's fortunes, there were a few bright spots during the era.

Despite the network's successes, a failed $ 1. 5 billion bid for MGM Studios in the same year sent Qintex into receivership.

Despite the ailment, which according to Buck " came out of the blue " and has hampered his ability to raise his voice, he continued to broadcast baseball for Fox during the season, and resumed as the network's lead NFL announcer that fall.

Despite high hopes on the network's part, Love is a Many Splendored Thing struggled against that competition as well.

Despite the program being produced in a 16: 9 frame since at least 2008, Last Call was still presented in a 4: 3 letterbox mode until September 19, 2011, when it became the last program ( outside of the network's outside-controlled Saturday morning Qubo block ) on NBC's schedule to make the full conversion to high definition broadcast.

Despite the series debut garnering ratings of 7. 6 million viewers ( at the time, the network's largest premier in the 18 – 34 demographic ), the series was canceled after ratings fell sharply in subsequent weeks.

Despite the network's status as the lowest-rated network, ABC was also reluctant to enter the risky venture.

Despite the network's effort at " puttin ' on a whole new face ", NBC's difficulties continued unabated:

Despite the network's initial concerns, " Weekend at Burnsie's " did not attract any controversy.

Despite the time constraints, CBS was pleased with the way Bakshi Productions addressed the network's notes.

Despite the weekly ratings of 7. 6 million viewers and the network's largest audience in the 18 – 34 demographic at the time, the series was cancelled.

* Despite its heritage, Applesoft lacked commands common to most other Microsoft BASIC interpreters, such as INSTR ( which searched for a substring in a given string ; this had to be done manually with loops and the MID $ function ), PRINT USING ( which formatted numbers with commas and currency signs according to a format string ), and INKEY $ ( which checked for a keypress without stopping the program as Applesoft's GET command — analogous to the INPUT $ function — did, although a PEEK location did provide this functionality ).

Despite this comparison, a fragment of a non-Christian parchment Codex of Demosthenes, De Falsa Legatione from Oxyrhynchus in Egypt demonstrates that the surviving evidence is insufficient to conclude whether Christians played a major, if not central, role in the development of early codices, or if they simply adopted the format to distinguish themselves from Jews.

Despite the success of his masterwork Dido and Aeneas ( 1689 ), in which the action is furthered by the use of Italian-style recitative, much of Purcell's best work was not involved in the composing of typical opera, but instead he usually worked within the constraints of the semi-opera format, where isolated scenes and masques are contained within the structure of a spoken play, such as Shakespeare in Purcell's The Fairy-Queen ( 1692 ) and Beaumont and Fletcher in The Prophetess ( 1690 ) and Bonduca ( 1696 ).

Despite the format proving to be popular with its readers, the newspaper remains broadsheet on weekdays.

Despite differences in the content, the format is usually the same: first the show introduces the subjects in their current, less-than-ideal environment.

Despite being a persistent portion of teaching from at least the renaissance, the format and the amount of information being taught has evolved and changed along with the demands of the profession.

Despite its problems, the format gained steady popularity because of its convenience and portability.

Despite this record though, Merton is one of only three people to have played all three roles of the show's format at various points: he is usually captain of his team, but along with being the first post-Deayton presenter ( series 24, episode 3 ), he has also been a guest on Hislop's team ( in series 11, episode 1 ).

Despite their higher cost, this was a popular format due to its reliability and ease of use.

Despite his previous affinity with politically and socially-charged lyrical themes, Gaye helped popularize sexual and romance-themed music and funk, while his 1970s recordings, including Let's Get It On ( 1973 ) and I Want You ( 1976 ) helped develop the quiet storm sound and format.

Despite an increase in transmission power, WHLD found that Air America with local morning talk format unsustainable and dropped the format for the Totally Gospel Radio Network programming in December 2006.

Despite the high quality and lower difficulty of the questions, only sixteen teams attended ACF Nationals in 2001, and the future of the format seemed tenuous.

Despite the fact that some broadcasters, such as the BBC, consider Super16 a " non-HD " format, John Inwood believed that footage from his camera was not only sufficient to air in high definition, it " looked terrific.

Despite Boyd's efforts to reinvigorate the format it became dominated by a small coterie of callers.

Despite the advantages over competing technology at the time ( namely VHS and Betamax ), the format does have drawbacks.

Despite simplistic plotting required by the 30-minute format, the writing was both professional in its handling of situations, and pointed in its dialog.

Despite rumours ( see below ), no broadcaster has since acquired the rights to the format in the UK.

Despite running for only two series, Pop Idols impact was immense and led 19 Entertainment and Fremantle Media to roll the format out globally ; currently there are over 50 versions in 110 countries, including, notably, American Idol, on which Cowell as a judge until 2010, before launching The X Factor USA in 2011.

Despite its confusing name, DSD-CD is actually the same format as Compact Disc Digital Audio.

Despite being mostly available in the UK, the Count Duckula disks from Fremantle Media are in Region 0, PAL format.

Despite more elaborate credits and yet another title — now simply, Walt Disney — the format remained unchanged.

Despite good reviews, the show failed to attract large audiences — perhaps due to its controversial subject matter and its minstrel show format — and closed on December 12, 2010.

Despite McCullough ’ s protest, Draper was a guest on Toast of the Town, as was originally scheduled.

Despite a fallout from record sales, Brown enjoyed something of a resurgence in this period starting with cameo roles in the feature films The Blues Brothers, Doctor Detroit and Rocky IV, as well as guest starring in the Miami Vice episode " Missing Hours " ( 1988 ).

Despite this, the guest in room 1 goes to the guest in room 2 to get a cigar.

Despite his earlier opposition to NAFTA, Perot remained largely silent about expanded use of guest worker visas in the United States, with Buchanan supporters attributing this silence to his corporate reliance on foreign workers.

Despite this talent, Berlioz never held an employed position of conductor during his lifetime, forced to be content with only guest conducting.

Despite an initial search for a permanent successor to Deayton, having a different guest host each week proved successful, with average audience figures increasing from 6 million to 7 million.

Despite the setback with Wendy's, Peller continued to make the most of her new-found fame, granting numerous press interviews and making several guest TV appearances.

Despite this the invasion was partially successful, the Tuhoe having had enough of their troublesome guest.

Despite his violent actions and dark nature, the Punisher has enjoyed some mainstream success ( although toned down ) on television, making guest appearances on Spider-Man: The Animated Series and even The Super Hero Squad Show.

Despite reports of a long-standing feud Mercer invited Walsh to appear on Monday Report as a special guest to promote her own series Hatching, Matching and Dispatching.

Despite its minimal infrastructure, modest guest houses are available for foreign pilgrims, whereas Tibetan pilgrims generally sleep in their own tents.

Despite this, he was a guest musician on the spring 1978 Jefferson Starship tour.

Despite his resentment, Hatch developed a respect for Ronald D. Moore, the new series ' writer and producer, when he appeared as a featured guest at Galacticon ( the Battlestar Galactica 25th anniversary convention, hosted by Hatch ) and answered questions posed by a very hostile audience.

Despite the extensive amount of weapons that Bleszinski incorporates into each of his games, he had no experience with a machine gun prior to a guest spot on The Jace Hall Show.

Despite a bout with Bell's palsy, which left him with slightly slurred speech, Kiner is still broadcasting, entering his 51st year of doing Mets broadcasts as of the start of the 2012 baseball season, though only as an occasional guest analyst.

Despite ill-givings and desires to move on, the group made one more album with Vanguard Records, Clancy Brothers and Lou Killen's Greatest Hits as well as several television appearances on the " Irish Rovers Show " in Canada and a TV special for Brockton television in 1974 ( in which Bobby Clancy made a surprise special guest appearance with the group ).

Despite this, Styles returned to ROH at the following show, At Our Best, and defeated CM Punk in a rematch with Ricky Steamboat as the guest referee.

Despite the hard feelings, in March 1981 both Fell and Lindley made one final guest appearance on Three's Company ( in season 5, episode # 96 ) nearly a year after the end of their own series before the characters were retired for good.

Despite the hype, initially good reviews and high-caliber guest stars, the network quickly started to bleed money ; the transmission lines leased from the Bell System, which was the main carrier for television network transmissions at the time, proved to be too expensive.

Despite its high-profile guest list, the release was met with lukewarm reception, and Muggs later clarified its status as a preview before the release of Soul Assassins III, the next full-fledged installment of his Soul Assassins series.

Despite the often larger celebrity status of his guest stars, Thomas himself usually played the lead in the sketches, with his celebrity guests in co-starring roles.

Despite the perceived shortcomings of " Spock's Brain ", Dusay has taken the role in stride and is a popular guest at Star Trek fan conventions, often appearing with personal friend and fellow Star Trek actor Michael Dante.