despite attempts to add anchors to broaden its appeal, new theme music and changing the title to "first camera", the changes failed to draw in viewers, and its new time slot only damaged ratings further; seeing no hope of successfully competing against the powerhouse "60 minutes", 7 percent of nbc affiliates declined to carry the revamped show, and it was further hurt by frequent pre-emptions due to football runovers. as a result, "first camera" was removed from the nbc schedule several months after the makeover, its last episode airing april 1, 1984.