Emphasis Preaching Journal

Every once in a while, network television takes a risk -- not very often, but it does happen.

One of the networks took a risk some years back. Some said the new series would never work, because of the location in which it was set. No matter that this particular setting exists in every American town, large or small -- still, the executives worried. They worried that the public would be offended.

The setting was a bar. The series, Cheers, almost didn't make it to the airwaves. Yet the network took the risk -- and ended up with a blockbuster success.