Complex sentence: Jim (James) Plunkett guided the "School" on to television, it was the 1st show to be pre-recorded for the new television station in 1961 and top of the TAM ratings up to when it was discontinued over five years later.
Split into simpler sentences: Jim (James) Plunkett guided the "School" on to television. The Irish Catholic, Thursday, February 19,1981 It was the 1st show to be pre-recorded for the new television station in 1961 and top of the TAM ratings up to when it was discontinued over five years later.